About Inez
Inez Kim built a study path across three countries and multiple disciplines before settling into law. She earned a B.A. in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002, an MBA in Marketing from Yonsei School of Business in 2007, an LL.M. from Northwestern University School of Law in 2009, and a J.D. from American Heritage University School of Law (J.D. 2013).
Her early career mixed management and volunteer roles. In 2002 she worked as general manager at Simone LLC, an operational role that leaned on her undergraduate business training. By 2006 she was involved in civic work as Marketing Chairman for the American Red Cross. The following year she took on in-house legal responsibilities at Dual Inc. and served on the steering committee of the Medical Peace Foundation.
Kim’s formal legal roles are recorded beginning in 2015. That year she worked as a lawyer for both the Africa Human Rights Network and BHPCL. Those positions placed her in environments where public interest and corporate legal practice intersected. The record shows parallel involvement in community legal services and bar groups that continued beyond those assignments.
She is active in several professional associations related to public service and employment law. Since 2015 she has been listed as a lawyer member of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area, the California Employment Lawyers Association, the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, and Affordable Family Lawyers. These memberships suggest sustained engagement with client work in both civil rights–adjacent matters and more traditional employment and family disputes.
Colleagues describe her approach as practical and direct. She has moved between nonprofit settings, in-house roles and practice that interfaces with community legal resources. That breadth has required tradeoffs: institutional knowledge from corporate work and immediacy from nonprofit client representation. Her education in business and law has, by available accounts, informed how she manages client matters and administrative demands.
Kim is licensed to practice in California and remains engaged in local bar activities. She maintains involvement in organizations that serve marginalized populations and employment-focused practitioners. Her background crosses business, humanitarian and legal spheres, and it informs how she frames cases and client options.
She practices in California, handling employment, family and AIDS-related legal matters.
