This will come as a surprise for a lot of you out there. Kim Kardashian West has said that she is studying to become a criminal justice lawyer and is planning to sit for the exams in 2022. The reality star has begun a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco last summer, at the time when she played a crucial role in the release of Alice Marie Johnson from prison. Kim’s father was Robert Kardashian an attorney and businessman who gained national recognition as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during the latter’s 1995 murder trial.
During an interview with a leading fashion magazine, Kim revealed her future plans and said, “I had to think long and hard about this. The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency and I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, ‘Oh, shit. I need to know more.’ I would say what I had to say, about the human side and why this is so unfair.”
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She further added, “But I had attorneys with me who could back that up with all the facts of the case. It’s never one person who gets things done; it’s always a collective of people, and I’ve always known my role, but 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.”
Alice Marie Johnson is a 63-year-old woman who had been in an Alabama prison on a non-violent drug charge since 1996 and Kim visited President Donald Trump in the White House to argue her case. The President eventually granted Johnson clemency which motivated Kim to take up her quest of becoming a lawyer. She is studying to be a lawyer but will not be attending a law school as the state of California allows people to take the bar without a college or law school degree.
During the interview, Kim also revealed a little bit about her childhood when her father was defending Simpson. She said, “On the weekends they used our home as an office, with Johnnie Cochran and Bob Shapiro. My dad had a library, and when you pushed on this wall there was this whole hidden closet room, with all of his OJ evidence books. On weekends I would always snoop and look through. I was really nosy about the forensics.”
Lawyers Jessica Jackson and Erin Haney are mentoring and helping Kim log her required 18 hours of weekly supervised study so that she can take her exams which is also called “baby bar”. If she passes the exam she will be allowed to continue studying for three more years. Talking about her subjects Kim said, “First year of law school, you have to cover three subjects: criminal law, torts, and contracts. To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and criminal law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me. The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds.”
(Source: Vogue)
