Kim Kardashian West said she started a four-year apprenticeship at a law firm in San Francisco last year in hopes of taking the bar in 2022.
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"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," she told Vogue.
Kardashian Wests father, Robert Kardashian, was famously a member of OJ Simpson's defense team. The 38-year-old said that as a child, she was inspired by his forensic books and would spend hours in his library.
With her own apprenticeship, Kardashian said the reading in time-consuming, but she can grasp the concepts in "two seconds."
While Kardashian West doesn't specifically say what law firm she is doing her apprenticeship with, she had worked with Jones and attorney Jessica Jackson on the Johnson case. Jones and Jackson are co-founders of the Oakland, California-based #cut50 , an advocacy group on criminal justice reform.
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The advocacy group confirmed to INSIDER that Kardashian West is doing her apprenticeship with them, but said the organization is not a law firm. In California, can apprentice with a law firm or sitting judge in order to take the bar exam without going to law school.
Kardashian West said she logs 18 hours a week of supervised study with #cut50 lawyers Jackson and Erin Haney. They work for hours in a law firm in Los Angeles, so Kardashian West doesn't have to travel to San Francisco.
Jones said Kardashian West's role in granting Johnson clemency was "indispensable."
"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. He was visibly nervous about it. And I watched Kim Kardashian unleash the most effective, emotionally intelligent intervention that Ive ever seen in American politics," he said.
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