Kim Kardashian Celebrates Passing California ‘Baby Bar’ Exam

December 13, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

Fourth time’s the charm for Kim Kardashian, who announced Monday on Instagram that she passed California’s “baby bar” after three fails.

California requires first-year law students attending unaccredited schools or participating in the law office study program, in which they study under licensed lawyers, to pass an exam to show they’re learning how to be an attorney.

The state will license attorneys who don’t go to law school as long as they pass the notoriously tough bar exam. The percentage of those passing the baby bar are low – June 2021 exam had a 28.4% pass rate for first-time test takers taking the exam, according to the California Bar.

“I failed this exam 3 times in 2 years, but I got back up each time and studied harder and tried again until I did it!!! (I did have COVID on the 3rd try w a 104 fever but I’m not making excuses😉),” Kardashian said.

Kardashian said she was “told by top lawyers that this was a close to impossible journey and harder than the traditional law school route but it was my only option and it feels so so sooooo good to be here and on my way to achieving my goals.”

Kardashian, who successfully lobbied then-President Donald Trump in 2018 to grant clemency to a nonviolent offender convicted for her role in a drug operation, said her father would have been proud of her.

Robert Kardashian was a Southern California attorney who was on O.J. Simpson’s “Dream Team” of defense lawyers during the former football player’s trial for allegedly killing his wife and a friend.


To contact the reporter on this story: Joyce E. Cutler in San Francisco at jcutler@bloomberglaw.com

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