Kim Kardashian has been on a decade-long journey to become a lawyer. I have no idea if Kim believed her journey would go smoothly, but it definitely seems like she never expected it to be this difficult. Kim opted out of going to law school, but she spent years doing a “law studies” program, which she completed last year. When she completed the program, she didn’t get a JD, but she did get some kind of certificate of completion which would allow her to take the bar exam, the final hurdle. Keep in mind, Kim flunked California’s “baby bar exam” three times before finally passing it in 2021. Well, last year, Kim flunked the California bar. She swore up and down that she would retake it. Well, according to TMZ, she has no immediate plans to retake it.
Kim Kardashian’s last call came in July 2025, we’ve learned … because she stayed out of the bar exam room in February — and she won’t be there in July either.
Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Kim plans to wait until at least 2027 to retake the bar exam after failing the test a little less than a year ago.
We’re told she plans on trying again … though whether she will in February 2027 is unclear at this time. Kim has a lot of time to mull it over — the final deadline to sign up for the February 2027 exam is January 4 next year.
As you know … Kim announced she fell short of passing the bar in November — thanking her supporters and letting her haters know the law dream ain’t dead.
She even called out Ray J for making claims about her in a lawsuit he filed … accusing him of torpedoing her chances of becoming a lawyer — so, we know she’s still taking the dream seriously.
In the meantime, Kim will have to settle for shooting a reality TV show, running a multibillion-dollar shapewear company and shining on the Met Gala red carpet … the horror! Bottom line, Kim doesn’t have to go home … but she can’t practice law in a courtroom either.
Eh, it is what it is. I’ve never been mad at Kim for trying to improve herself or for creating this goal. I actually believed that Kim would give up years ago, especially during the flunked-baby-bar years. Think of how easy it would have been for Kim to go on Instagram and say, “you know what, I changed my mind, I can find more useful ways to spend my time.” Of course, I think this whole thing has been a come-and-go hobby for her, which is why she’s not taking the bar exam this year. She doesn’t feel like it, she has other things on her plate, she’s just not into it this year. At this point, she’s not going to give it up, but she’ll hit pause on her legal ambitions for months at a time.
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- Kim Kardashian at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party (98th Annual Academy Awards) Hosted By Mark Guiducci held at the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) at 5905 Wilshire Blvd on March 15, 2026 in Museum Row, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, United States.,Image: 1083506943, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Pictured: Kim Kardashian, Credit line: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Avalon
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- New York, NY Kim Kardashian is seen leaving the set of a film she is producing, wearing a striking full Chanel look in a golden dress. She was joined by her mother Kris Jenner and sisters Kendall and Kylie during the outing. Pictured: Kim Kardashian BACKGRID USA 3 MAY 2026 BYLINE MUST READ: ASPN / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT????? This is shocking news. Does Trump know about this? He’s not going to be happy. She was supposed to head his new branch of civil rights, the first case being defamation with regards to the ballroom. This is sad news, I am going to be protesting in my skims! The law does not know what a huge loss this is. I am taking my ball and going home, so there! I hope you’re all happy bullying that sweet natural girl to this brutal decision. I blame all you celebitches , so there!
I don’t think it’s ever okay to mock someone for simply trying to improve themselves. The California bar is notoriously difficult particularly for someone who hasn’t attended law school. I’m not much of a Kim defender but sneering at the fact that she sets goals for herself feels wrong and more than a little misogynistic.
+1
It is not easy, and she has been persistent. Good for her.
I respect all people who choose to learn new things and improve themselves in midlife. Kim, I hate to say it, is doing something good.
Now do it more!
@Jenny I agree. I really don’t understand why people mock her legal ambitions. Many if not the majority take the bar multiple times but Kim gets laughed at. She’s been doing this for years when she didn’t need to at all. I’m not a fan but she deserves some credit.
She gets laughed at because she has never pursued education. She’s made a career of promoting vapid, anti-intellectualism that has had net negative impact on our culture, and she treats this pursuit with the seriousness of a dilettante collecting trophies.
There’s no shame in struggling to achieve this notoriously difficult goal. Just ask all the law students who were studying furiously over the weekend instead of wearing metal underwear at a billionaire bash.
Didn’t she blame AI as the reason she didn’t pass the bar?
As in, she used AI to study, and clearly hadn’t done enough of the actual work herself to know when AI led her astray with false info.
Refusing to put in the actual hard work required of everyone else (who is not as wealthy/famous as you) is not really bettering yourself, nor is it trying to actually learn something new. And it certainly doesn’t suggest she takes any of this seriously.
Kim gets mocked because Kim is full of it. Kim could have done an online bachelor’s and then gone to law school. What exactly does she do that would have prevented her from going to law school and keeping a light social schedule? She doesn’t cook, clean or take care of her kids, she has money and help. She doesn’t run any of her fake “businesses” (they all have founders and she’s just a face for a cut of the profit) so all she had to was seek a little less attention. Couldn’t do it.
Just because Kim has pursued OTJ learning over formal institution-based education, a legitimate path open to her in California, that is no reason to mock her for dilettantism. Regarding her use of AI (ChatGPT?) to study for the exam, sounds like she not only learned her lesson that it’s not a viable test strategy, but she was willing to share her vulnerability with the general public.
It also sounds like she’s made a more reliable estimate of how much exam study time she’ll actually need to successfully pass next time. I don’t follow her, but it sounds like she spends a fair amount of time promoting various brands on social media for income — that plus child rearing activities would cut into available study time. While we’re all here finding fault with other women though, let’s mock some other high profile women for their failures.
A. Michelle Obama. After failing the Illinois bar exam, she was devastated, never having failed a test before. Silly non-serious girl did eventually pass though. “In the end, aside from issues of pride, my screwup would make no difference at all.” (Becoming)
B. Rachel Denhollander. Talk about non-traditional. After being home schooled, she enrolled in Oak Brook College of Law, a Christian distance-learning institution. After getting her JD from Oak Brook, she qualified for and passed California bar exam. All good. But her big failure? It was earlier — while she was a gymnast, she became a victim of Larry Nassar. She was also the first woman to pursue criminal charges against USA Gymnastics’ team doctor, Larry Nassar. Her legal training, although unconventional, was surely a boon in helping the IndyStar break the story and helping Michigan Asst AG Angela Povilaitis justice.
C. Ray Montague. I don’t like characterizing a female African American as a failure, but this poor lady had to settle for a business degree from U of Arkansas at Pine Bluff when she really wanted to be an engineer. Even with her college degree, the Navy put her to work in CASDAC as a clerk typist. She took night classes in computer programming. And fortunately, her interpretation of “pursuing education” encompassed continuing to learn on the job and become expert in CAD/CAM, which was the basis of engineering certification test. She asked her boss if she should pursue engineering degree and he told her she knew enough to teach engineering. So she passed the certification exam instead and became RPE, Registered Professional Engineer.
@Kirk – Michelle Obama grew up in an apartment in a blue collar community on Chicago’s southside. She was afraid to even step foot on the nearby University of Chicago campus because she didn’t feel she belonged there. Through hard work, she got into Princeton, where she excelled, and went onto HARVARD LAW.
If you can’t stop yourself from comparing her to Kim Kardashian, KEEP HER NAME OUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH.
@mightymolly – Not comparing Michelle Obama to Kim Kardashian.
What I said before:
‘While we’re all here finding fault with other women though, let’s mock some other high profile women for their failures.’
Even if you completely disregard the sarcasm inherent in my approach, choosing instead to just read the comments literally, you can see I give credit where credit is due in all examples given. In the case of Michelle Obama, I quote from a book she wrote that I read in 2019. In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama writes in great detail about her life in Chicago and her academic career. Interesting that you chose not to be offended by the other examples given — or, not surprisingly, not.
LMFAO!
Seriously?? All this was, was an attempt to re bran herself as ” Lady Bountiful”. She NEVER took the actual work she needed to do seriously and now that it IS Not easy and would require her to actually stop looking at her reflection and work she just can’t. She takes credit for the hard work of the actual legal team. Did you see her study set up in her tiny bikini by the pool??? It was attention seeking period. She could fund the work quietly but that doesn’t get her any press, does it? She stays playing in people’s faces and because she isn’t out right vile, everyone falls for it. They support a fascist regime, please.
BTW- notice how they stopped the Black folks cosplay now that it isn’t cool to be a POC? They’re vile and folks need to wake up.
They are vile people and her pursuing to be a lawyer is a joke. She doing it to reinvent herself. Those people always have a motive and use others to climb the food chain.
Thank you. As a former law student working two jobs plus weekends at the legal aid clinic, I can’t take her seriously. She obviously thought it would be a breeze. Using AI Zand chat gpt to study…SERIOUSLY, and some commenters here think I should not mock her. She just thought being a lawyer is hot and threw some money at it. How hilarious didn’t she say out of her mouth people just don’t want to work these days. Well the bar is tough and you are expected to work hard, plenty of people have retaken the bar several times and I don’t mock them, I admire their grit and courage because they worked hard or are actively working hard to achieve that. Skim can walk off a bridge with that one…you can’t Skim through your studies and expect to pass.😂
Maybe she’s taking more time to study before she tries again. It is supposed to be one of the hardest bars to pass, isn’t it?
She is not studying, she never studied. If she was taking this seriously, she would have taken time off to get this done, . She picked a route that she thought was easy but no. It’s actually harder and she burned herself, She thought she could continue to do whatever with minimal effort, she cheated and got caught . She isn’t a serious person. @kirk. Keep Mchelle Obama’s name out of your mouth when it comes to Kim.
I passed the Illinois bar the first time but after 5 tries never passed California (bronchitis, assault, depression, electronic screw up) so I feel for her. I don’t like her politics or how she talks about people who work for her, though.
Plenty of reasons to hate on Kim, but this one ain’t it. Learning and trying and failing and retrying and adapting in pursuit of a goal—particularly a knowledge-based goal—are admirable qualities.
Is there a limit to taking the bar,after lets try number 10 do they recognise that maybe you are just not equiped for law?
When did Kim earn a bachelor’s degree? When did she go to law school? I reserve pity for those who worked their butts off to get into and graduate from law school. People who actually deserve it. Kim received mentoring from actual hive level attorneys like Van Jones to help her get her certificate. Yet she allegedly used ChatGTP to answer the Bar test questions and wonders why she failed. I applauded her for using her high profile celebrity status to advocate for people wrongfully imprisoned. And she was very good and successful at that. I don’t root for people to fail, but as someone who, like many, had to jump several hoops to even go to college and graduate with Bachelors and Masters degrees, I’ll never be a fan of anyone who cheats and takes short cuts.
Co-sign on all of this!! Plenty of people without law degrees or even formal education have done amazing work supporting good causes. Plenty of people are self taught. She could do so much good with her platform. But I am amazed she’s made it this far.
How do you know she used ChatGPT to answer Bar test questions? When I took the Texas Bar, you had to surrender your cell phone before you entered and once you opened the program on your laptop to answer the essay portion on the third day, it shut down your access to everything else on your computer. I highly doubt she would’ve had the opportunity to use ChatGPT at all. And I’m not sure how anyone would KNOW that she did unless she, like, got busted by a test proctor.
She bragged about using ChatGPT to study.
But using ChatGPT to study doesn’t mean you use it on the test. I actually think it would be next to impossible to use ChatGPT or any outside source to take the Bar Exam because of how heavily proctored it is.
She blamed her failing on ChatGPT.
Which, even if all it means is she used it to study (although Kim getting a private, unproctored testing situation wouldn’t surprise me either), shows she hadn’t actually bothered to learn any of the material herself, since she couldn’t recognize what Chat GPT got wrong.
she was on the record blaming chat GPT for failing the bar multiple times
Amen.
I have 4 friends who attended law school with me 20 years ago who have yet to pass the California bar. One gave up after 7 tries. Another gave up after 10. These people were brilliant legal minds and passed the bar in other jurisdictions – although one never passed anywhere. California and NY are the hardest bar exams.
Not gonna knock Kim for trying except I think it’s a bit arrogant to think you can pass that exam without even attending law school. Law school teaches you to think like a lawyer. It’s 3 years of intense study and it’s no joke. I was lucky (or maybe unlucky) to pass the bar on the first try. I didn’t take California or NY though. I ended up hating practicing law, so part of me wishes I had just failed it (I was only going to take it once) and I could get that 10 years back. The minute I paid off my student loans and debt, I was outta there.
Today I am back home in Canada. I don’t practice. Best thing I ever did was walk away from that toxic profession. If Kim is really serious about becoming a lawyer she will attend law school.
Shallow note I love the orange dress (which would have looked better with darker hair). First time she’s ever worn anything that I like.
I had no idea you could pass the bar exam and become a lawyer without actually going to law school. Are there people who have successfully done that?
Yes, people who are actually serious about it and not looking for attention.
Yes, it’s actually a really cool program. Washington state has a similar setup called the clerkship program, wherein instead of paying to go to law school for three years, you can work as a legal assistant or paralegal (and GET paid) for four years, while completing additional coursework under the guidance of your attorney for a chunk of time each week. I think the fee is like $1500 per year. At the end of the four years, you qualify to take the bar, you know practical law and what it actually takes to be a lawyer rather than just theory, and you haven’t gone into debt to do it. It has some drawbacks – with law school you are cleared to take the bar in every state if you move, etc., and here you are only cleared to take it in your home state – but it’s a really cool program that makes practicing law more accessible to those who can’t afford law school. I’m a little peeved at Kim for making people think the concept is a sham. If she’s actually doing it with full intention and effort, though, good for her. The CA bar is notorious, and not passing it on the first try isn’t indicative of any failing on her part.
They are vile people and her pursuing to be a lawyer is a joke. She doing it to reinvent herself. Those people always have a motive and use others to climb the food chain.
Like her or not, she is ambitious.
It will happen.
Great. She can be the next Pam Bondi.
It won’t because she is not going to do the work to buckle down to pass it. Kim ain’t smart, Courtney is ( weird though) and Kris is a genius. None of them are, Kris is the brains and she gets them deals that make it look like they started a business when all they do is put their name on it and there are actually other owners doing the work.
This was all performative. She is just not smart enough and on top of that she is morally bankrupt.
State bars review your background to ensure you possess “good moral character,” defined as honesty, trustworthiness, and respect for the law. They look for acts of “moral turpitude, including fraud, theft, cheating or serious criminal conduct.
She had to pay a 1,2 Million Dollar fine to the SEC cause she was involved in some scammy Krypto shit.
She finally found the one thing she couldn’t buy…..