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Kardashian told Vogue magazine in an interview
published on Wednesday that she has begun a four-year
apprenticeship with a San Francisco-based law firm under a
California program for those without formal qualifications.
Kardashian, who dropped out of college, said she aims to take
the bar exam in 2022.
The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star said she made the
decision last summer after visiting the White House and
persuading President Donald Trump to commute a life sentence
handed out to a 63-year-old woman in Tennessee for a first drug
offense.
"I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who
have paid their dues to society. 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,” Kardashian, 38, told Vogue.
Kardashian helped to win clemency in January for another woman
in Tennessee who had been convicted as a teenager of murdering a
man who paid to have sex with her.
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 crime law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a
100. Super easy for me," she told Vogue. "The reading is what
really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in
two seconds.”
While best known for developing beauty and fashion products and
showcasing her life with her sisters on the TV show "Keeping Up
With the Kardashians," Kardashian has some powerful legal DNA.
Her late father, Robert Kardashian, was a prominent Los Angeles
lawyer who was part of the legal team representing football star
O.J. Simpson in his 1995 trial and acquittal for double murder.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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