Kim Michele Shomer

Kim’s work ethic and guiding principle is to elevate others’ lives by providing compassionate and wise legal counsel.

Though she was born in Philadelphia and raised in one of its nearby suburbs, Kim fell in love with the West Coast at age eighteen. Moving West became a must for her.

After earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Rutgers Business School in 1991, she moved to the Northwest to attend law school at the University of Puget Sound School of Law. She had an interest in tax law, and began working for one of the then Big Six Accounting firms in Seattle, Coopers & Lybrand by the time she was in her last year of law school. While intrigued and challenged by it, tax law was not her passion. Kim left Coopers & Lybrand a year later to take a job as in-house counsel in a different business where she was one of four in-house attorneys. Her employer was the sole shareholder who owned numerous properties, buildings and companies encompassing seventeen states.

As in-house counsel, Kim honed her skills working at negotiating multimillion-dollar real estate transactions ▪ zoning laws ▪ seismic upgrades ▪ drafting and negotiating multiple leases ▪ creating purchase and sale agreements ▪ shareholder and operating agreements ▪ defending suits for tenant or landlord ▪ managing various employment law issues including wage and hourly claims and unemployment insurance claims. She defended licenses and penalties relating to both the Department of Licensing and Office of Insurance. She also headed in-house collection work.

In the year 2000, Kim decided to open her own law practice. She works with small businesses and individuals who often need ongoing corporate and individual guidance. This is a true passion for Kim. Many times the corporate work leads to individual counsel including simple estate planning. Because she loves her work, there is no issue facing a business or person that is too big or small. Whether its drafting a simple promissory note, a corporate formation, enforcing a breach of contract, or filing claims for defamation on social media, she welcomes it all.

In order to be more in service to those in need, Kim now focuses her law practice on personal injury. Her firm is available to serve those who incur personal injury whether it be from a moving vehicle accident, a slip-and-fall, product liability, or medical malpractice (a personal favorite of hers).