Lawyer Kim Nutz: Bringing Calm To Her Client's Legal Chaos | Episode 35

Kim Nutz is a labour and employment lawyer who has managed to design a career that has the best of both worlds. She is Senior Legal Counsel at West Legal in Calgary and has opened her own firm, Sunstone Legal. As a lawyer and legal entrepreneur, her mission is to bring calm to her client's legal chaos.    Kim and Evelyn discuss:

• How Kim transitioned from a career in criminal law to employment law.
• The work/life balance goals that led Kim to consult for a small law firm.
• Introducing flat flee service fees to employment law in Calgary.
• Why she opened her own firm... and named it Sunstone: the meaning of the sunstone crystal.
• Have the changes Kim's put in place made her a happier lawyer?
• Who are her ideal clients?
• The COVID shutdown happened when her new firm was 5 weeks old: how that impacted Kim's business.
• The crossover between immigration law and employment law.
• How COVID impacted The Great Resignation.
• What's Kim's secret sauce: what makes you a happy lawyer, and makes life enjoyable as a lawyer?
• Why Kim is optimistic for young women in law and how the practice of law is changing.