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.
