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

<div>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 <a href="https://www.west-legal.ca/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.west-legal.ca/&source=gmail&ust=1636128389693000&usg=AFQjCNHI7XyAcrERYEzQZPfrhleOoZbh3Q">West Legal</a> in Calgary and has opened her own firm, <a href="https://sunstonelegal.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sunstonelegal.com/&source=gmail&ust=1636128389693000&usg=AFQjCNFArwl7y_WCGjSHRNnTbp8FfftPlg">Sunstone Legal</a>. As a lawyer and legal entrepreneur, her mission is to bring calm to her client's legal chaos. </div> <div> </div> <div>Kim and Evelyn discuss: </div> <div> <ul> <li>How Kim transitioned from a career in criminal law to employment law.</li> <li>The work/life balance goals that led Kim to consult for a small law firm. </li> <li>Introducing flat flee service fees to employment law in Calgary.</li> <li>Why she opened her own firm... and named it Sunstone: the meaning of the sunstone crystal.</li> <li>Have the changes Kim's put in place made her a happier lawyer?</li> <li>Who are her ideal clients?</li> <li>The COVID shutdown happened when her new firm was 5 weeks old: how that impacted Kim's business. </li> <li>The crossover between immigration law and employment law.</li> <li>How COVID impacted The Great Resignation.</li> <li>What's Kim's secret sauce: what makes you a happy lawyer, and makes life enjoyable as a lawyer?</li> <li>Why Kim is optimistic for young women in law and how the practice of law is changing. </li> </ul> </div>