BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Kim Kardashian is a step closer to following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a lawyer.
She has completed a legal apprenticeship and is now eligible to take the California bar exam, her representative confirmed Wednesday.
The entrepreneur and reality TV personality shared an Instagram Story from a modest private gathering at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where she was all smiles wearing a graduation cap.
Jessica Jackson, a lawyer who mentored her in the program, called it “one of the most inspiring legal journeys we’ve ever seen.”
“Six years ago, Kim Kardashian entered this program with nothing but a strong passion for justice,” Jackson remarked in a speech shown in the video. “No traditional law school experience, no easy routes, just sheer determination. And a vast array of case law books to study.”
In California, individuals have the option to study under a legal professional or judge as an alternative to attending law school. If Kardashian successfully passes the state’s notoriously challenging bar exam, she could earn her license to practice law.
Jackson said Kardashian spent “18 hours a week, 48 weeks a year for six straight years” on the program.
Her late father, Robert Kardashian, was an attorney and counted O.J. Simpson among his clients.
Kardashian revealed the milestone roughly a week after she testified in a Paris courtroom about her fear of being killed during a 2016 armed robbery.
“I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,” she told a Paris court May 13 about the ordeal. “I absolutely did think I was going to die.”
Kardashian has in recent years been a criminal justice reform advocate and in 2018 successfully lobbied President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was serving a life sentence without parole for drug offenses.
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