--- title: Kim Kardashian West is Studying to Become a Lawyer description: Kim Kardashian West is a reality tv star, a fashion plate, the wife of musician Kayne West - and future lawyer? canonical: https://time.com/5568130/kim-kardashian-lawyer/ author: Tara Law article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-04-11T01:29:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T23:59:31.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Kim Kardashian West is Studying to Become a Lawyer og:description: "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.” og:url: https://time.com/5568130/kim-kardashian-lawyer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dcdcadf3193d9ba/6989480d4ee2627434314538/kim-kardashian.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Kim-Kardashian-West og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kim Kardashian West is Studying to Become a Lawyer twitter:description: "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.” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8dcdcadf3193d9ba/6989480d4ee2627434314538/kim-kardashian.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kim Kardashian West Is Studying to Become a Lawyer > Sponsored content. 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Kim Kardashian West attends the amfAR New York Gala 2019 at Cipriani Wall Street on Feb. 6, 2019 in New York City.Jared Siskin/amfAR—Getty Images  by [Tara Law](https://time.com/author/tara-law/)  ## Tara Law Updated: Dec 12, 2023 11:59 PM UTCPublished: Apr 11, 2019 1:29 AM UTC Kim Kardashian West is a reality tv star, a fashion plate, the wife of musician Kayne West – and future lawyer? Kardashian West [announced in _Vogue_‘s May](https://www.vogue.com/article/kim-kardashian-west-cover-may-2019) issue that she has been pursuing a four-year law apprenticeship since last summer and plans to take the bar exam in 2022. Kardashian West tells the magazine that she has become increasingly involved with criminal justice reform advocates since last year, when she joined CNN commentator and activist Van Jones and several lawyers to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House to ask that [he commute the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson](http://time.com/5304312/alice-johnson-pardon-interview/), a 63-year-old woman who had been imprisoned in Alabama on a nonviolent drug charge since 1996\. Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence last summer. Kardashian West says she has been working with Jones and attorney Jessica Jackson, the cofounders of bipartisan criminal-justice reform group #cut50. “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,” Kardashian West told _Vogue. “_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.” Although Kardashian West never received a bachelor’s degree, California is among four U.S. states which offer an alternative way to pass the bar: apprenticing with a lawyer or judge, known as “reading the bar.” This summer, Kardashian West is scheduled to take the “baby bar,” a state test which would enable her to continue studying for three years. Jones told _Vogue_ that while Kardashian West is often presented as a vapid reality star, he was impressed by the way she persuaded the President to listen to their cause about Alice Marie Johnson. “I watched with my own eyes Trump confess to having tremendous fears of letting somebody out of prison and that person going and doing something terrible, and the impact that that would have on his political prospects,” Jones said to _Vogue_. “He was _visibly_ nervous about it. And I watched Kim Kardashian unleash the most effective, emotionally intelligent intervention that I’ve ever seen in American politics.” He argued that while people can be blinded by depictions of Kardashian West, she has been using her visibility for a higher purpose. “This is the daughter of an accomplished attorney and the mother of three black kids who is using her full power to make a difference on a tough issue and is shockingly good at it,” Jones told the magazine. **Correction, April 11** _The original version of this story misstated the year in which Kim Kardashian West is planning to take the bar exam. 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