Prior to joining Brune & Richard in 2007, Mr. Kim was associated with Latham & Watkins LLP for six years.  From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Kim was a law clerk to the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  From 1998 to 1999, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edwin L. Nelson in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.  After graduating from law school, Mr. Kim was a Public Interest Fellow at the Alliance for Justice in Washington, DC, where he engaged in written and oral advocacy on federal judicial selection, takings clause legislation, and nonprofit tax law.   

Mr. Kim is the co-author of "Fraud and Theft Offenses" (with Robert E. Sims and Elizabeth B. Lamzaki) in Federal Sentencing for Business Crimes (Lexis/Nexis 2003), a treatise on the sentencing guidelines applicable to federal crimes involving mail and wire fraud, embezzlement, counterfeiting, and trade secrets theft.

Mr. Kim earned a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1997 and served as Managing Editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review.  Mr. Kim graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.