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Agence France-Presse

American television star Kim Kardashian, known for her reality shows and marriage to hip-hop artist Kanye West, is studying law and hopes to pass her California bar exams by 2022, the magazine Vogue reported.
The 38-year-old lifestyle mogul, who has 134 million Instagram followers, has been interning at a California law firm since last year.
She said she was inspired to study law after successfully petitioning US President Donald Trump last year to pardon Alice Marie Johnson.
Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother, had served nearly 22 years of a life sentence for cocaine trafficking.
A week after meeting with Kardashian, Trump – also a former reality television star – pardoned Johnson in June 2018.

The star of Keeping Up With the Kardashians said she had been invited on a different occasion to the White House to participate in a working group on pardons and clemency.
“I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society,” she told Vogue.
“I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more,” said the mother-of-three whose own father Robert was a lawyer who helped defend OJ Simpson in his murder trial.
Kardashian said her first year of the apprenticeship involved studying three subjects: criminal law, torts and contracts.
“To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me,” she told Vogue.
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“The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds.”
Admission to law school in the United States usually requires a bachelor’s degree in any discipline. Kardashian never graduated from the college she attended, Pierce, having dropped out before she completed her course.
But some states including California do allow would-be lawyers to intern in a law firm for four years before taking the bar exam.
Kardashian has been apprenticing at a San Francisco law firm since last year and hopes to pass her exams by 2022.
The practice dates back to the days of Thomas Jefferson, who, according to a decades-old Washington Post story, “became a lawyer in the 1760s after many hours reading the Virginia code under the tutelage of a prominent lawyer and legislator”.
Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter pointed out that law degrees weren’t even “a thing” until the early 1800s, and that the esteemed Abraham Lincoln also chose to study the law through an apprenticeship in lieu of traditional courses.
Another notable law reader, depending on your perspective, is Frank Abagnale, the real-life con man Leonardo DiCaprio played in Catch Me if You Can.
Additional reporting by The Washington Post and Reuters


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(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 06, 2019 US media personality Kim Kardashian West arrives to attend the amfAR Gala New York at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. – Reality TV star Kim Kardashian-West revealed she is preparing to take the bar exam an become a lawyer, she said to Vogue magazine in an interview released on April 10, 2019. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

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Kim Kardashian plans to become a lawyer in the same unusual way as Abraham Lincoln
Her late father, Robert Kardashian, was a prominent Los Angeles lawyer who helped defend OJ Simpson in his murder trial


There are plenty of descriptors that can precede Kim Kardashian West’s name: reality star, business mogul, professional influencer and … aspiring criminal justice lawyer?


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