Kim Kardashian studying to be a lawyer in apprenticeship program

Reality star Kim Kardashian is studying to be a lawyer, inspired by her success in helping to win the release from US prisons of two women.

Kardashian told Vogue magazine in an interview published on Thursday that she has begun a four-year apprenticeship with a San Francisco-based law firm under a California program for those without formal qualifications. Kardashian, who dropped out of college, said she aims to take the bar exam in 2022.

The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star said she made the decision last summer after visiting the White House and persuading US President Donald Trump to commute a life sentence handed out to a 63-year-old woman in Tennessee for a first drug offense.

"I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society. I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more,” Kardashian, 38, told Vogue.

Kardashian helped to win clemency in January for another woman in Tennessee who had been convicted as a teenager of murdering a man who paid to have sex with her.

Kardashian said her first year of the apprenticeship involved studying three subjects: criminal law, torts and contracts.

"To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100. Super easy for me," she told Vogue. "The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds."

While best known for developing beauty and fashion products and showcasing her life with her sisters on the TV show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kardashian has some powerful legal DNA.

Her late father, Robert Kardashian Sr., was a prominent Los Angeles lawyer who was part of the legal team representing football star OJ Simpson in his 1995 trial and acquittal for double murder.