BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Kim Kardashian is a step nearer to following in her father’s footsteps and changing into a lawyer.
She has accomplished a authorized apprenticeship and is now eligible to take the California bar examination, her consultant confirmed Wednesday.
The entrepreneur and actuality TV star posted an Instagram Story from a small non-public ceremony on the Beverly Hills Lodge, the place she smiled as she donned a commencement cap.
Jessica Jackson, a lawyer who mentored her in this system, referred to as it “one of the most inspiring legal journeys we’ve ever seen.”
“Six years ago, Kim Kardashian walked into this program with nothing but a fierce desire to fight for justice,” Jackson says in a speech within the video. “No law school lectures, no ivory tower shortcuts, just determination. And a mountain of case law books to read.”
California permits folks to review underneath a lawyer or decide as an alternative choice to regulation faculty. Kardashian may develop into a licensed lawyer if she passes the state’s notoriously troublesome state bar examination.
Jackson mentioned Kardashian spent “18 hours a week, 48 weeks a year for six straight years” on this system.
Her late father, Robert Kardashian, was an lawyer and counted O.J. Simpson amongst his purchasers.
Kardashian revealed the milestone roughly per week after she testified in a Paris courtroom about her worry of being killed throughout a 2016 armed theft.
“I was certain that was the moment that he was going to rape me,” she advised a Paris courtroom Could 13 concerning the ordeal. “I absolutely did think I was going to die.”
Kardashian has in recent times been a legal justice reform advocate and in 2018 efficiently lobbied President Donald Trump to commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was serving a life sentence with out parole for drug offenses.
