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rather long hill after being spotted by her surveillance target while
crouched in the bushes outside his home. Kim also briefly tried her hand at
accounting, a safer option, but of course quickly realized that her math
skills were more suited to a career in law.
While attending the two-year paralegal course at Capilano College, Kim
worked as a nanny during the school year, and in the library of a major
downtown law firm. Upon graduating, Kim was hired by Campney & Murphy,
where she worked for eight years as a paralegal in the litigation department,
mostly working on maritime and personal injury insurance claims.
Her time as a paralegal confirmed for Kim that she wanted to pursue a
career in law, which led her to study law at UBC. While attending law
school, Kim worked at two law firms (Grant Kovacs Norell, and Campney &
Murphy) and took on a legal position with the Department of Transportation
and the Department of Justice on a particular litigation matter. As one
might expect, those jobs overlapped such that Kim was often managing all
three at the same time! She was able to juggle her study and work schedule
by arranging her law courses so that they were on Tuesdays and Thursdays,
leaving Kim free to work the other five days of the week at her three jobs.
After graduating from UBC law school in 2002, Kim was hired as an associate
with Campney & Murphy. In an unfortunate turn of events in no way
related to Kim’s performance, Campney & Murphy ceased operating within
months of Kim’s call to the bar. She was quickly recruited to join Fasken
Martineau DuMoulin LLP, where Kim worked as an associate in the insolvency
and restructuring group for six years. Kim forged lifelong friendships
with many of her colleagues at Fasken and earned a reputation as a tireless
and dedicated lawyer. She was also a strong advocate for associate development
and successfully lobbied the firm to institute what would become an
annual retreat for the associates. Her former colleagues, particularly the
associates, are quick to thank Kim for her services in that regard.
In 2008, Lawson Lundell LLP persuaded Kim to join its practice, where
she reunited with the insolvency lawyers who had moved there following
the closure of Campney & Murphy. Kim was an invaluable member of Lawson
Lundell’s insolvency and restructuring team. Her breadth of knowledge
of bankruptcy, restructuring, receivership, foreclosure, creditor and debtor
law was (and is) extraordinary. Whenever a lawyer within the department
had a legal issue or problem they were not sure how to deal with, they
would seek Kim’s advice, and inevitably she would provide the solution or
precedent needed. Others in the legal community also recognized Kim’s
broad knowledge, and she would frequently receive calls from lawyers at
other firms asking for her advice on various legal issues.