Kim started her career with LELS as a Business Agent in 2009 and was promoted to Staff Attorney in 2014. She is currently the most senior LELS attorney and is a valuable resource to her fellow attorneys and Business Agents. She succeeded in challenging an interest arbitration award wherein a county hid important data and as a result employees received an extra 5% wage increase. She succeeded in challenging an employee termination and aided LELS General Counsel Isaac Kaufman in countering the employer’s appeals, ultimately ending at the Minnesota Supreme Court with a decision affirming the original arbitrator’s restoration of the officer’s job. In conjunction with co-counsel, she has also succeeded in overturning employers’ terminations of a corrections sergeant and, most recently, a deputy. Kim crafted numerous labor agreements “from scratch,” including agreements for two new State employee bargaining units, a “labor” that took nearly six months. In addition, Kim has represented hundreds of officers in internal affairs investigations and represented several officers regarding their POST licenses. She also regularly handles legal representation of critical incident witnesses. Kim described her job as a Staff Attorney as the perfect combination of her two prior attorney positions.

While an Associate Attorney at Ratwik, Roszak & Malolney from 2004 to 2009, she practiced in the areas of school law and municipal law, with an emphasis on employment issues, employment investigations, data privacy laws and regulations, and civil litigation. She developed one-on-one employee harassment sensitivity training and provided various trainings to school administrators. In addition, she taught a Hamline University Law School seminar class on the Pupil Fair Dismissal Act.

As an Assistant Isanti County Attorney from 1998 to 2004, Kim’s caseload included juvenile delinquency prosecution, child protection, termination of parental rights, zoning, and adult criminal prosecution. She successfully tried numerous bench and jury trials, drafted appellate documents, and successfully aided in giving children a second chance with a forever home.