Kim Kardashian’s Latest Law School Endeavors
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I’m a big fan of Kim Kardashian’s quest to become a lawyer — via the apprenticeship route (not having a bachelor’s degree makes a traditional law school path challenging). Whatever you think of her TV show, the SKIMS empire, or the SKKN-Line empire, the work she’s done to reform criminal justice is commendable. I want her to be successful — and not just for the simple traffic that comes from putting “Kim Kardashian” in a headline.
Faithful Above the Law readers will be familiar with Kim’s social media documentation of her work as a squire. She shared a criminal troubles spotter who cast Justin Bieber as the criminal mastermind and Tiger King Hypos, complaining that law school life sucks and explaining that she was neglecting them Keeping up with the Kardashians Livetweeting duties to keep up with tort homework during the summer holiday celebrations as she continued with her contract homework and dealt with personal issues surrounding her. She even has a favorite law professor — University of Washington professor Steve Calandrillo — who she yelled at on Insta. Occasionally, she has a “just like us” moment, like when she wrote about shooting tequila while studying tort, and less relatable moments, like when studying a bikini photo shoot.
Balancing a law degree with a billion-dollar business, motherhood, and a notoriously difficult co-parent wasn’t easy. Passing the baby bar — the first test on her road to becoming a lawyer — took her a few tries (although she took one iteration of the test WHILE SHE HAD COVID). But eventually she passed, and what’s more, one of her essays was used as a sample answer.
Now she’s preparing for the next level of her bar exam – and that means new subjects. According to her Instagram Stories, which documented so much of her quest for law school, she’s now delving into fraud law and community property.
via Kim Kardashian’s Instagram
As evidenced by the fact that Kardashian is just beginning to learn con law, she still has a long way to go before she can *officially* call herself an attorney. But it is clear that she is on the right track.
