Kim Kardashian's journey towards becoming a real-life lawyer took a setback this weekend, as the reality TV star and billionaire entrepreneur revealed on Instagram that she had not passed California's bar exam. However, she vowed to continue studying relentlessly until she achieved her goal.
"Well... I'm not a lawyer yet, I just play a very well-dressed one on TV," Kardashian wrote on Instagram. "Six years into this law journey, and I'm still all in until I pass the bar. No shortcuts, no giving up – just more studying and even more determination."
The 45-year-old Kardashian said she came "so close" this time and called the result "fuel" for her next try. "I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivated me even more. Let's go!"
Kardashian had previously expressed hopeful sentiments about her prospects of passing the mandatory legal exam during an October appearance on Britain's "The Graham Norton Show." While promoting Ryan Murphy's series "All's Fair," in which she stars as a divorce attorney, she said she was confident she would soon be a "qualified lawyer."
Kardashian is attempting to follow in the footsteps of her father, Robert Kardashian, who famously was part of the "Dream Team" that represented O.J. Simpson during his murder trial in 1995. Simpson was acquitted of the charges.
In an April 2019 Vogue interview, the "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star and mother of four publicized her summer 2018 decision to study the law after championing the case of former prisoner Alice Marie Johnson, who had been imprisoned for life plus 25 years for a nonviolent drug offense. President Trump commuted Johnson's sentence in 2018 at the urging of Kardashian and others, and pardoned the great-grandmother two years later.
Over the years, Kardashian has been working with attorneys Van Jones and Jessica Jackson, who sponsored her studies. Instead of attending law school, Kardashian planned to pursue a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco and then take the bar in 2022. After COVID pandemic-induced delays, Kardashian passed the "baby bar" exam in December 2021 after several attempts. In May, she passed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam, required before a person attempts to pass a bar exam in the United States.
Days before sharing her bar exam results, Kardashian discussed using artificial intelligence to bolster her law studies during a Vanity Fair lie detector appearance with co-star Teyana Taylor. "Do you consider ChatGPT to be a friend?" Taylor asked the reality star. "I use it for legal advice," Kardashian replied. "So when I am needing to know the answer to a question, I'll take a picture and snap it and put it in there." "So you're cheating?" Taylor responded. "They're always wrong. It has made me fail tests."
While Kardashian's professional law career has yet to take off in real life, she is currently portraying a powerful player of an attorney on the small screen in Murphy's "All's Fair," starring alongside Sarah Paulson, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, and Teyana Taylor as her cohorts.
