KIM Kardashian still has a long road to becoming a lawyer after she celebrated her law school graduation with a big bash.
Los Angeles-based legal expert and powerhouse attorney Goldie Schon explained to The U.S. Sun how Kim‘s long law studies, which were not done at any accredited law school, may contribute to her having more difficulties passing the highly competitive California Bar Exam – which she needs to pass to become an official lawyer.
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On Wednesday, Kim threw herself an elaborate graduation party, but there were no school colors shown as she didn’t attend one.
At her party, she sported a cute beige graduation cap as she stood and took photos in front of a lucite graduation podium.
Kim, 43, gave an effusive speech to her friends and family in attendance at the small ceremony she put on for herself at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Goldie explained Kim completed what is called self-study, which is when one works with a mentor, and after the first year, the student has to take what’s called the Baby Bar Exam to make sure she’s doing the work.
If the student passes, she can continue her studies outside of a law school with her mentor.
The reality star failed the Baby Bar twice before passing it on her third try.
“Nobody does self-study for six years,” Goldie explained of Kim’s drawn-out road to finishing the law curriculum.
“The people that do it this way have to have a lawyer who is essentially their superior and who sign off, on the regular, to the state bar that they’re student is doing a, b and c on a regular basis.
“It has to be a certain person who’s signing off saying, yeah, they finished this stuff, and they read that stuff and they’re doing this stuff. It’s like the benchmark.”
Goldie explained that a typical law school is three years full-time, or four years part-time, with some opting to take an intensive two-year program.
Meanwhile, Kim took six years to complete the curriculum.
“It’s a massive amount of reading, and it’s a massive amount of reading comprehension, so it’s not just reading the text, it’s reading the text, understanding it, and being able to communicate it in a paraphrased fashion so that it shows that you understood it,” the expert added.
KIM ‘SKIPPED VITAL EXPERIENCES’
She explained that the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star opting to take a nontraditional route in law school likely robbed her of some vital experiences that the majority of law students face to prepare them for the practice of law.
“People say, ‘Oh law school doesn’t teach you how to be a lawyer,’ and that is correct.
“Law school does not teach you how to be a lawyer, it teaches you how to think.
“That’s all law school does. It teaches you how to think on your feet. It teaches you how to read something or listen to facts that people tell you, and take in what you said, and then dumb it down and throw it out to you.”
As the experienced Los Angeles attorney noted, California’s State Bar Exam is extremely difficult, and only 55% of people who took the test in the state this past February passed.
The state has one of the lowest bar passage rates in the country.
She suspects that Kim will take the upcoming bar in July because the reality star recently took an ethics test which is a prerequisite for the big test.
The Kardashians star passed what is called the Professional Responsibility Exam, in recent months which as the expert explained is necessary to take the much more difficult bar exam.
She explained why Kim may have a difficult time taking the actual test that she needs to pass to become a lawyer.
“You finally, in six years, finished your self-study, now you have to take a test based off everything you learned over six years.”
MOUNTAIN OF STUDYING AHEAD
Goldie said that once you graduate from law school, students only briefly breathe a sigh of relief before they jump right into studying for the exam.
Kim has posted various snaps of herself diligently studying through the years, so fans may expect more of that in the coming months.
“You pick up the books again, because now you got to take the bar and now you have to condense three years into a matter of a few months to be able to kick it back out again.”
“Of all the subjects that you learned in three years to go to the bar and say which categories are you going to throw at me? Are you going to say a constitutional law question, are you going to give me an evidence question? Are you going to give me a family law question, a community property question, are you going to give me civil procedure question? This is what happens.”
She said the amount of material a law school student needs to review for the bar exam is daunting.
“You got to be ready for all of it. You’ve got to know all the subjects, and there’s 15 or 20 of them.
“Kim’s entire curriculum that she learned in six years needs to be condensed in order for her to be able to kick it out, whatever they throw at her, whatever question they throw out, she’s got to be able to respond.”
Goldie believes that Kim will take the July bar because “I think it would be prudent on her part to do that because if there is ever a time she’s going to know as much as she knows, it’s now.”
The expert added that Kim could get special accommodations for the bar exam based on doctors’ notes, such as if she has ADHD or dyslexia, she could get more time or be able to take it in a room by herself.
At the end of the day the expert says “We wish her the best, but we hope that, if she does become a lawyer someday, that she respects the respect the profession.
“Just don’t exploit it. People work really hard to become a lawyer, and it just needs to become respected again.”
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