
Kim is the chair of our Appellate Group and is a fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. She handles appeals, writs, and post-trial motions for clients in state and federal courts around the country. Kim has successfully petitioned appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, several federal appellate courts, and the Pennsylvania and Texas Supreme Courts, to grant discretionary review. She has argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the state appellate courts in California, Louisiana, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Kim is the principal author of briefs submitted to each of those courts, as well as virtually every other federal circuit court of appeals and other state appellate courts, including those in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia. Kim’s experience encompasses a wide range of substantive issues, including those impacting the financial services and managed care industries, as well as class actions, complex jurisdictional questions, data privacy, product liability, employment and higher education law, and constitutional issues. Prior to focusing her practice on appellate law, Kim gained considerable jury trial and preliminary injunction proceeding experience, which she calls on as she regularly represents clients in appeals after trials.
Credentials
Awards & Recognition
- American Academy of Appellate Lawyers Fellow
- Named “Women of the Year” in 2015 by the University of Pittsburgh’s Pitt Law Women's Association, honoring a prominent and influential female Pitt Law alum
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Appellate Practice, 2008-2023. She also received the Best Lawyers™ 2015 and 2018 Appellate Practice "Lawyer of the Year" awards in Pittsburgh
- Selected for inclusion in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list for Appellate (2009-2021)
- Named a 2013 Appellate Star in Pennsylvania for the Third Circuit by Benchmark Litigation