Areas of Practice
Estate planning, administration of trusts and estates, estate and trust disputes, charitable giving

Representative Experience
Kim’s experience serving as trustee since 1990 has given her additional insight into drafting wills and trusts and to assisting with disputes.

Her practice since 1974 has concentrated on the following:

• Estate and Tax Planning: assisting individuals and families to tailor-make the disposition of assets to the needs of their beneficiaries; counseling and representing clients in tax minimization through lifetime transfers and tax-effective transmission at death
• Administration of estates following death: assisting with all aspects of settlement, whether assets pass under will or by revocable living trust
• Representing beneficiaries, executors, and trustees in will and trust interpretations and in resolving disputes

Memberships and Activities
Fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estate Counsel, a national organization in which membership is extended to only the most outstanding trust and estates practitioners

Listed as one of "The Top 50 Female Washington Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2006

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2001-2002, 2004-2005, 2007-2008

Named as one of "The Best Lawyers in America" by Woodward/White since 1987

Bar Associations: Past Chair of the Real Property, Probate & Trust Sections of both the Washington State Bar Association and the Seattle-King County Bar Association

Estate Planning Council of Seattle

University of Washington: Estate Planning Board, Past Chair; Board of Visitors of the School of Law, 6 years; and University of Washington, past member, Board of Directors

The Seattle Foundation, past secretary, 5 years

Education
J.D., Stanford School of Law, 1972

B.A., magna cum laude, Vassar College, 1969, Phi Beta Kappa