Allegedly well-educated do this. 😡

From the OP: “Although the entertainment mogul never obtained an undergraduate degree, California's "reading law" process allows future lawyers to participate in apprentice-style learning under a licensed attorney instead of attending a formal law school.”

latitude that she would never receive in law school.

I'll give her her due when/if she passes the bar exam. Despite that article's seeming suggestion otherwise, the separate MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination) exam, which is an ethics exam, is not a substitute for the bar exam. That is a hurdle that still awaits her.

Of course this was back in the early 1900s and that was how most lawyers did it then, and that is what California and a few other states allow. And of course she still has to pass the bar, but if Pam Bondi can do it, so can she.

I'm a fan of self-education initiatives--as long as they can pass the bar and show competence. She may well prove herself as dedicated and effective as those of her cohort who attended the best law schools. I hope so.

(And see TV pundits) with advanced degrees who don’t understand object-of-preposition rules.

differentiating between the subject “I” and the object “me”.

“Me” rather than “I” (etc.) is correct.

Here is a good description:

https://quillbot.com/blog/sentence-and-word-structure/object-of-a-preposition/

who read for her divinity degree in the Episcopal Church. Her diocese (West Virginia) is one of the few that allow it, due to the scarcity of priests, I think. She was well educated to begin with, however.

“Allegedly”

She’s a good person, but her misuse has just the opposite of the intended effect.

She wouldn't have said, "It started with we." It's really not hard to speak properly.

who say that wouldn’t say “Me went to the store”, but when there’s a compound subject they fail.

Saying “Bob and i went…” but I think she gave up in frustration.

...is people making a possessive out of "I" - John and I's vacation."

I's isn't even a word! Aauuugggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know it's currently used all the time and it drives me nuts. Nobody would say "It did start with I" so why the hell would they say 'it did start with Van and I"?

It just makes the speaker sound ignorant to me.

How did she get a law degree if she can’t even write in English?

Law degrees in the USA are not (yet, anyway) issued written in Republicanese.

She doesn’t have an undergraduate degree either.

And this poor woman will be crushed by the weight of debt she now has just trying to make something of herself. Maybe she can help defend trans people rights, especially GQP trans, that have to be the most vulnerable to hate.

thought she graduated years ago

I think education is always a noble endeavor, depending on who is doing the teaching. It's difficult enough these days to afford the luxury of an education, but it's only going to get worse, and with prison reform that education can be utilized yesterday.

Who is he again?

I could be wrong, but I understand that despite graduating from New York University Law School, Jared Kushner hasn’t passed the Bar. Nor has Tiffany Trump.

I would have thought the obscenely rich would be somehow able to buy their, er, "pass".

Remember that if you can't represent your clients fully and professionally, they'll lose money or their freedom. And if you're an Associate in a firm and you f*ck up, the whole firm is sued for malpractice and gets a stain on its reputation.

Passing the Bar is the way you have a modicum of reliability. You can't go running to the Partners and other Associates every day and ask about court procedure or how to do legal research. You have to be able to work independently. And no, you can't let your paralegals do all the work and you take the credit.

despite graduating from a fifth-rate law school. Which just shows to go you, as my dad was wont to say.

Snaps her up?

...law school.

She has often said so. And she's rich enough to do pro bono work too.

But she persevered and hopes to work in prison reform. This wasn’t an easy “gimme”. She’s already finished her course work, passed the baby bar and the MPRE.

More celebrities should be as committed to social justice.

But I guess I only have an impression that they’re socialites/influencers? Fluffers and fashion.

Not that any of them were into solid social justice work. Can only hope she’ll use her insider status for some good

A Kardashian with brains! How refreshing!

That said, I wish her luck and credit her efforts. Anyone who seeks to self-study is worthy of respect in my book.

THIS may be her "escape hatch" from all the superficiality of her appearance-obsessed earlier years and if so, I truly applaud her.

He represented O.J. Simpson. So, he graduated law school AND passed the CA bar.

Her degree/license is that of an apprentice, and she has yet to pass the state bar exam.

Well at least she’s a college guh-gag-ua.

What KK missed when she essentially took a law school correspondence course:

1. Debating the law with classmates
2. Being grilled by a relentless professor to see if she really understood the dynamics of a case, such as the Rationale for the decision, not just remembering the decision
3. No experience in researching the arcane cases in stare decisis to bolster a legal premise
4. No experience in legal writing, e.g., memoranda, briefs
5. No discussion of the specific area of law in a class (e.g., contracts, corporations, family law, property law, etc.)

Either she starts her own firm and has her associates do all the work and let them go to court for her -- or she can sit at her desk and complete estate documents from templates on her computer.

There is no set program for reading the law or any way to determine when it is finished until someone passes the bar exam. Most states that allow this have a minimum time you must serve reading the law but there are no exams or curriculum to follow.

As a law school graduate (which is a 3 year program), I just can't imagine how "reading the law" could possibly educate someone enough to pass the bar exam. There would have to be some kind of unofficial reading list and discussions to get even close to the kind of knowledge you would need for the bar exam, unless they are a hell of a lot easier than when I took the exam many years ago. If she passes the exam she must be one hellova smart person.