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Simpson during a 1995 murder trial that resulted in an acquittal, announced that she, too, will be a lawyer.  \n(Simpson, a legendary American football hero, was accused of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown-Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. The murder trial was televised live and the case went on for months. )  \nCosmopolitan , Elle and Vogue reported it (a fashion magazine broke a legal news story!), but so did CNN, The Guardianand BBC news among other news Jasmine Daya outlets.  \nMy first thought was: Kardashian has been binge watching the Netflix legal drama Suits. This is a clear case of life imitating art.  \nWhen I saw the news flashes about her announcement, I felt the same irritation that I did while watching Mike Ross practise law without a law degree. I found it offensive.  \nFor anyone who has been living under a rock, Suits is a popular Netflix legal drama now in its eighth season. It is set in New York but actually filmed in Toronto. (It’s fun to watch the show to see how many locations you can spot: Oh, look that’s the lobby of the TD Centre! That’s Brookfield Place!)  \nThe basic premise of Suits is this: lead character Ross is trying to turn his life around from being a lowgrade pot dealer to a Wall Street lawyer. Ross has a photographic memory but he never went to law school. He remembers every single thing he has ever read, word-for-word, making memorizing legal tomes easy peasy. He claims to have studied law. Normally, Pearson Specter Litt hires only from Harvard Law School. And, as the audience expects, Ross gets hired on because otherwise there is no show.  \nThe lawyer-never-having-gone-to-law-school is a clever plot device, I give you that. The characters are compelling; the dialogue is fast-paced and well written, and managing partner Jessica Pearson has the best wardrobe, ever. Real lawyers just know too much about how the legal system really works, but we watch anyway.  \nI love the intensity of the show and can often relate to the issues at play within the law firm, but Ross never having attended at law school always irritated me. Prior to the bar accepting him, I found Ross’s fraudulent behaviour upsetting, to the point where I almost stopped watching the show.  \nTaking her cue from Ross and being a daughter of privilege, Kardashian won’t be going to law school like almost all other lawyers. Nope! She won’t be hitting the books in the law library. Nor committing key precedent cases to memory. Nor writing her heart out in term papers. Nor burning the midnight oil studying for exams.  \nInstead, Kardashian decided to do a four-year apprenticeship with a San Francisco law firm starting back in 2018 and take the bar exam in 2022. How is this possible?  \nCalifornia is one of the five states in the U.S. that allow prospective lawyers to do apprenticeships instead of attending law school; the other states are Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming.  \nThere are certain things Kardashian must do during her four-year apprenticeship. She needs to be studying law at a firm during regular business hours for a minimum of 18 hours each week for at least 48 weeks to receive credit for one year of study. She and her supervising attorney must submit semiannual progress reports to the California Bar Association. Plus, she needs to take and pass the first-year law student’s exam.  \nFollowing her four-year apprenticeship, Kardashian needs to take (and pass) the bar and get a positive moral character determination. She will also need to pass the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination.  \nKardashian and her family have grown an impressive business empire. She is a talented businesswoman in her own right, but ","cbCaieiT3j0HHiMF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieiT3j0HHiMF","pdf",365480,"English","# Opinion\n## Critique of Kardashian’s legal path\n## Comparison with traditional training\n## Bar exam requirements and statistics","[{\"question\":\"What is the author’s main criticism of Kim Kardashian becoming a lawyer?\",\"answer\":\"The author finds the announcement offensive and “does not ring true,” arguing that Kardashian’s casual approach to legal training minimizes the seriousness of becoming a lawyer. The piece also suggests it may be a setback for women rather than progress.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Kardashian plan to qualify as a lawyer, according to the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article states she will complete a four-year apprenticeship with a San Francisco law firm starting in 2018, then take the bar exam in 2022. 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