Kim Kardashian Is Studying to Become a Lawyer, Wants to Take the Bar in 2022

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Good for her! It’s very ambitious and noble if she’s planning to help people. I love when people have a “second act” in life.

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Anonymous wrote:Kim is not stupid, you don't build an empire on nothing and get your family members rich, too, from stupid. Maybe, like someone else said earlier, she's planning for the second half of her life because she realizes even with plastic surgery, she can't keep up the "I'm a Barbie girl" thing too much longer.

Anonymous wrote:She brilliantly built a fortune and launched her family into their own. She is a very smart and savvy person. Good for her.

That anyone attribute the family's empire to anyone but Kris Jenner is only more evidence of Kris' genius and savvy.

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Let me guess, she’s going to USC?

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess, she’s going to USC?

No. But you are too dumb to go to USC, she is not going to school... dumb bunny, she is interning and taking the bar.

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Anonymous wrote:Good for Kim. Her husband did a similar thing, working as an apprentice at European fashion houses and learning French. More people should approach lifelong learning with such zeal.

Oh, and Kim is smarter than most DCUMers. Being a nerd doesn't make you smarter.

But being a nerd is the kind of smart that makes for the most successful lawyers! And I'd even go as far as saying being a particular kind of nerd. I know brilliant engineers who would make terrible attorneys and great legal scholars that would probably blow up a science lab. Shrewd is smart for sure, but not necessarily the kind of smart she would need to pull off being a big law type lawyer, no?

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Anonymous wrote:Kim is not stupid, you don't build an empire on nothing and get your family members rich, too, from stupid. Maybe, like someone else said earlier, she's planning for the second half of her life because she realizes even with plastic surgery, she can't keep up the "I'm a Barbie girl" thing too much longer.

Anonymous wrote:She brilliantly built a fortune and launched her family into their own. She is a very smart and savvy person. Good for her.

That anyone attribute the family's empire to anyone but Kris Jenner is only more evidence of Kris' genius and savvy.

I agree with this. That boss bitch is the best puppet master ever. Makes Putin look like a girl scout cookie mom at best.

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Good for her! She could have remained in her comfortable life but she decided to fight for a cause that's important to her and become more knowledgeable to help with that cause. I can't find fault with that at all.

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I don't like Kardashians but I've often thought it would be great if the Paris Hilton types decided to dedicate themselves to charity or social justice or what have you so.... good for her.

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What, like it's hard?

Seriously, if she wants to study law, more power to her, but the CA bar is a beast.

I assume she wants to do Innocence Project-related work, and if I give her the benefit of the doubt, she's planning to work pro bono. So, good for her.

I will say that learning black-letter law ("the concepts") is a very minimal part of actually learning to practice law. Black-letter law is pretty easy. Effective legal research and argument is a completely different matter.

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Anonymous wrote:What, like it's hard?

Seriously, if she wants to study law, more power to her, but the CA bar is a beast.

I assume she wants to do Innocence Project-related work, and if I give her the benefit of the doubt, she's planning to work pro bono. So, good for her.

I will say that learning black-letter law ("the concepts") is a very minimal part of actually learning to practice law. Black-letter law is pretty easy. Effective legal research and argument is a completely different matter.

As a fellow lawyer, I don't disagree with you. But remember, she's already got the "argument" part down.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/06/trump-pardons-alice-marie-johnson-kim-kardashian-west-plea/

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Anonymous wrote:Good for Kim. Her husband did a similar thing, working as an apprentice at European fashion houses and learning French. More people should approach lifelong learning with such zeal.

Oh, and Kim is smarter than most DCUMers. Being a nerd doesn't make you smarter.

But being a nerd is the kind of smart that makes for the most successful lawyers! And I'd even go as far as saying being a particular kind of nerd. I know brilliant engineers who would make terrible attorneys and great legal scholars that would probably blow up a science lab. Shrewd is smart for sure, but not necessarily the kind of smart she would need to pull off being a big law type lawyer, no?

There are many, many ways to practice law, and success in no way correlates with intelligence beyond a certain level. There are other personal characteristics that are more important. Being too smart is a detriment to most areas of the law, in my opinion, because it makes lawyers (most the male ones) believe they know everything. Especially when you are in the position of a legal scholar or judge, it's very important to know you aren't better than other people, and that your IDEAS are not better, just because you have a higher IQ. Scalia, case in point.

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Anonymous wrote:What, like it's hard?

Seriously, if she wants to study law, more power to her, but the CA bar is a beast.

I assume she wants to do Innocence Project-related work, and if I give her the benefit of the doubt, she's planning to work pro bono. So, good for her.

I will say that learning black-letter law ("the concepts") is a very minimal part of actually learning to practice law. Black-letter law is pretty easy. Effective legal research and argument is a completely different matter.

And as a practicing lawyer, I always felt that this trope that the black letter law is minimal was pretty ridiculous. Knowing the content and the rules is actually a huge part of practicing most types of law. Most lawyers aren't concocting brilliant briefs that are platonically perfect. Things like strategy, passion, politics, teamwork, influence -- those are more important for making systematic change, which is was Kim is apparently interested in. If she can learn the black-letter law of criminal law in order to understand the injustice of the system, that will be enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Kim is not stupid, you don't build an empire on nothing and get your family members rich, too, from stupid. Maybe, like someone else said earlier, she's planning for the second half of her life because she realizes even with plastic surgery, she can't keep up the "I'm a Barbie girl" thing too much longer.

Anonymous wrote:She brilliantly built a fortune and launched her family into their own. She is a very smart and savvy person. Good for her.

That anyone attribute the family's empire to anyone but Kris Jenner is only more evidence of Kris' genius and savvy.

I agree with this. That boss bitch is the best puppet master ever. Makes Putin look like a girl scout cookie mom at best.

+2 outside of Kris (and maaybe Kylie) I don’t think any of them have much of a business sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Good for Kim. Her husband did a similar thing, working as an apprentice at European fashion houses and learning French. More people should approach lifelong learning with such zeal.

Oh, and Kim is smarter than most DCUMers. Being a nerd doesn't make you smarter.

But being a nerd is the kind of smart that makes for the most successful lawyers! And I'd even go as far as saying being a particular kind of nerd. I know brilliant engineers who would make terrible attorneys and great legal scholars that would probably blow up a science lab. Shrewd is smart for sure, but not necessarily the kind of smart she would need to pull off being a big law type lawyer, no?

No. There are lots of different kind of lawyers who need different kinds of skills and personality. She probably would not make a great appellate attorney or legislative attorney, but I bet she'd be an excellent lobbyist.

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Anonymous wrote:The article says that California is one of a handful of states that allows people to “read the law” by spending four years working under a licensed attorney rather than attending college and then law school. It looks like you have to take an exam after your first year of study that covers certain core areas, and if you pass then you’re allowed to complete the next three years. You still have to pass the bar to become a licensed attorney.

Virginia is another state that allows "reading the law." But, almost no one who does this is able to pass the bar exam. KK will never sit for or pass the bar. She doesn't have the mental chops or personal determination. She will explain in 4 yrs that she realized she can do more for x cause by bringing star power to it.

I passed the bar. No way ok can do it.