Kim focuses on class action defense, professional liability matters, complex commercial disputes, appeals and health care litigation. She is passionate about learning the intricacies of her clients’ businesses, crafting novel legal arguments, and devising creative litigation strategies. Her goal: an effective and efficient approach tailored to the unique needs of each case.

Chair of the firm’s Class Action Defense Practice Group, Kim has substantial experience defending class action lawsuits across the country involving a broad range of industries, including health care, insurance, pharmaceuticals, travel, banking, and food services. These cases—which often involve substantial exposure and the potential to alter a company’s business model—require a careful and creative legal strategy. As one example, Kim successfully defeated eight separate class action lawsuits brought against insurers and other related entities under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, managing to avoid formal discovery in every case and ultimately obtaining an award of fees against the plaintiff in one of the matters. Kim has experience in all aspects of class action practice including multi-district litigation.

Kim also handles professional liability matters on behalf of lawyers and other professionals, including defending malpractice and vexatious suit claims. Kim is the former Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s (CBA’s) Standing Committee on Professional Ethics, which provides ethics opinions to the Bar. She has presented at CBA ethics seminars for members of the bar and has published on emerging ethics issues. She will be teaching a professional responsibility course at Yale Law School.

Kim also has a passion for representing health care clients, particularly in matters involving reimbursement, and certificates of need. For example, Kim represented many of the nonprofit hospitals in the State challenging the adequacy of Connecticut’s Medicaid rates. After numerous days of hearing, the matter resulted in a historic settlement, requiring hospital rate increases over a period of years and a restructuring of the provider tax applicable to hospitals.

On the appellate side, Kim has played an instrumental role in numerous appeals that have raised issues of first impression. Kim’s appellate victories include Connecticut Supreme Court decisions establishing a qualified privilege for employer references and imposing an exhaustion requirement for university faculty members seeking to challenge tenure decisions. Recently, Kim prevailed in a novel matter before the North Carolina Supreme Court regarding the proper interpretation of actual cash value for partial home losses. An avid observer of the U.S. Supreme Court, Kim spent many years authoring Wiggin and Dana’s Supreme Court Update, an e-mail service providing clients and friends of the firm with timely, insightful summaries of recent Supreme Court decisions. One reader called them “the most readable and engaging summaries, anywhere.”

Kim joined the firm following a clerkship with the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California. She received her J.D. from the Yale Law School and her B.A. with highest distinction in economics and English literature from the University of Michigan.

With Wiggin and Dana’s support, Kim took a leave of absence to expand a local nonprofit, All Our Kin, creating a new program to provide business, legal, and educational support to low-income family child care providers. Kim co-founded All Our Kin in law school and remains an active supporter.