First off, this Vogue article on Kim K really rocks -- Jonathan van Meter portraits the uber-celeb with an intimate tone, yet from a distance ... because one can only get SO close to mega-star Kim Kardashian.

The bit that everyone's picking up on is that Kim reveals to van Meter that she wants to be a lawyer when she grows up. She's got books on tort law stacked up on her nightstand and she wants to sit for the bar exam. Really?!

We were all fairly shocked when Kim went to D.C. to meet with President Trump (her hubby Kanye's tiger-blood idol) to talk to him about criminal-justice reform and about letting the prez to commute the life sentence of non-violent offender Alice Marie Johnson, which she was successful in doing. After that, Mrs. West realized she'd found her calling -- to be a lawyer. "I had to think long and hard about this,” she says of her decision she says of her decision to start studying for the bar, after “seeing a really good result” with Johnson.

“I never in a million years thought we would get to the point of getting laws passed. That was really a turning point for me," she tells Vogue. Of course the added advantage would be that she could save the family TONS of money on legal bills.

She says it was a team of people that got criminal-justice reform in front of Trump (like the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner and others) but that she wanted to be a more active participant: "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."

So this summer she'll take the "baby bar" which will allow her to then continue studying for another three years before sitting for the full bar. She won't actually go to law school -- she's studying at home ... home-schooling herself. Here's how she explains it: "First year of law school, you have to cover 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. The reading is what really gets me. It’s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds."

You think Kim will pass? We wonder what her hourly will be? Or will she do pro-bono only? We'd hire Kim Kardashian, Esq.!