• Kardashian confidently told Graham Norton she’ll be “qualified” when California bar results drop November 7.
• The reality mogul completed six years through California’s rare Law Office Study Program, dedicating 18 hours weekly without attending college.
• She helped free Alice Marie Johnson from life sentence in 2018, sparking advocacy work that influenced bipartisan criminal justice reform.

LOS ANGELES (TDR) — Kim Kardashian is swapping the red carpet for the courtroom—and she’s dead serious about it. The reality TV mogul and entrepreneur revealed on The Graham Norton Show Friday that she expects to become a “qualified lawyer” within two weeks when California bar exam results are released.

Six Years of Grinding

“I will be qualified in two weeks. I hope to practice law. Maybe in 10 years, I think I’ll give up being Kim K and be a trial lawyer. That’s what I really want,” Kardashian told Graham Norton during an appearance promoting her new Hulu legal drama “All’s Fair.”

The 45-year-old took the bar exam in July after completing California’s unconventional Law Office Study Program—a rare apprenticeship path that doesn’t require college or law school attendance. According to her mentor, attorney Jessica Jackson, Kardashian “dedicated 18 hours a week, 48 weeks a year for six straight years” to her legal studies.

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The journey wasn’t easy. Kardashian passed the notoriously difficult “baby bar”—the First-Year Law Student’s Examination—in 2021 after multiple attempts. She then completed the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) in March 2025, a mandatory prerequisite for practicing law in California.

“It was mentally challenging having to do it all, but I loved it,” Kardashian told Norton when asked how she juggles acting roles, legal aspirations, and her billion-dollar business empire.

California’s bar exam is legendary for its difficulty, with first-time pass rates hovering around 40-50 percent. The State Bar of California will release results on November 7, though Kardashian appears supremely confident she’s cleared the hurdle. TMZ previously reported that the reality star was the only student in her law school class, celebrating her program completion in May with two mentors praising her achievement in videos posted by her sister Khloé Kardashian.

From Reality Star to Reform Advocate

Kardashian’s legal ambitions trace back to 2018 when she stumbled across the story of Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother serving a life-plus-25-year sentence as a first-time nonviolent drug offender. Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight criminal counts stemming from a Memphis-based cocaine trafficking operation.

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Rather than just tweeting support, Kardashian picked up the phone and called Ivanka Trump, eventually sitting down with President Donald Trump to plead Johnson’s case. Trump commuted Johnson’s sentence in June 2018 after 21 years behind bars, then granted her a full pardon in August 2019.

“I’ll never forget her saying, ‘you know, there must be thousands of Miss Alice’s inside. I can’t stop here,'” Jackson recalled in an interview with Law&Crime. “The more involved she got, the more she saw and the more she understood how unjust our justice system really is.”

Changing the National Narrative

The Alice Johnson case launched Kardashian into serious advocacy work. She began partnering with #Cut50, a bipartisan initiative focused on reducing incarceration, and started her apprenticeship under Jackson and attorney Erin Haney. Kardashian lobbied for the First Step Act, bipartisan legislation that resulted in thousands of people being released from federal prisons and provided improved job training, drug treatment, and reduced mandatory sentences.

“Because of her, we were able to get sentencing reform attached to the First Step Act,” Jackson said. “[She] made this an issue that both Democrats and Republicans could get behind.”

Kardashian’s 2020 Oxygen documentary “Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project” followed her advocacy work on individual cases including Dawn Jackson, Alexis Martin, Momolu Stewart, and David Sheppard. She’s visited prisons, met with inmates, and used her platform of over 350 million followers to amplify voices that are too often silenced.

In May 2025, Kardashian received the inaugural Champion of Justice Award from The Action Group (TAG) at a star-studded celebration where Alice Johnson presented the honor. Johnson, who now travels with Kardashian to engagements and became a model for her SKIMS shapewear line, described their partnership as family.

Following in Her Father’s Footsteps

Kardashian’s legal ambitions honor her late father Robert Kardashian, one of O.J. Simpson’s defense attorneys who died in 2003. She first revealed her plans during a 2019 Vogue cover interview, explaining that seeing the impact she could have on the criminal justice system motivated her to pursue formal legal credentials.

Forbes estimates Kardashian’s net worth at $1.7 billion as of May 2025, fueled by SKIMS (valued at $4 billion), KKW Beauty, and savvy real estate investments. A law license could unlock additional revenue streams, including serving as in-house counsel for her companies and slashing the estimated $500,000+ annual legal bills on intellectual property battles and contracts.

But Kardashian insists the money isn’t the motivation. “Once I saw that I was able to make a difference, I couldn’t stop there and I realized there were so many other people to help,” she told CNN at the 2023 TIME100 Summit. “With Alice I felt like it was a fairly easy experience for me when I know it shouldn’t be to help get someone out. It takes 10 to 20 years to do what I did in six months.”

What’s Next

Beyond her legal career, Kardashian has multiple projects in the pipeline. “I have a few projects coming up—I film my first movie in January, and we are hoping for a season 2 of All’s Fair,” she told Norton. The new series, created by Ryan Murphy, features Kardashian playing a lawyer—perhaps the ultimate method acting preparation.

Whether she passes remains to be seen. But after six years of intensive study while running multiple businesses and raising four children, Kardashian has already proven her critics wrong. If she clears the bar, expect celebrity lawyering to get a major glow-up.

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