As an active advocate for ADR and expanding choices in law since the mid-1990’s, Kim has had the opportunity to develop curriculum and lead, teach, train, and present to many adult audiences. Most presentations have been to lawyers ranging from a small retreat on finding right livelihood in the law to leading the annual meeting for the Elder Law section of the Florida Bar Association. She has also spoken to an audience of over 1,000 coaches about legal issues for coaches and has led community conferences on social justice and community organizing.

Presentations, trainings, & speaking engagements:

October 2009, National Association of Women Judges, Annual Conference, Memphis, Tennessee

October, 2009, CLE on Screening in Collaborative Law, Memphis

Guest, September 10, 2009, Late Nite Conversations with Allan Holender Radio Show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Papa-Zen/2009/09/11/Late-Nite-Conversations...

Lead Trainer, Basic Training in Collaborative Practice, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee, August, 2009.

Co-Leader, Introduction to Collaborative Practice for Multi-Disciplinary Professionals, sponsored by Memphis Area Legal Services and Community Legal Center of Memphis, Tennessee, July, 2008.

Guest Lecturer, A New Approach to Contracts, Contract Law class of Susan Daicoff, Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville, FL, June, 2008.

“History of Holistic Law”, International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers annual meeting, May, 2008.

“G.D Davidson Roundtable — Helping Students Find Their Calling” Guest Lecturer, Warren Wilson College, May, 2008.

Guest Lecturer: Restorative Justice, Elon University in March & April, 2008.

“Lawyers as Peacemakers” special presentation at Vanderbilt Law School, November, 2007.

“Opportunities for Restorative Justice in Legal Education”, Humanizing Legal Education Conference, Washburn Law, October, 2007. (Also served on conference planning committee)

“Collaborative Law: Lawyers as Peacemakers” in Memphis, TN (conference sponsored by Memphis Bar, Legal Services, and UT Law), October, 2007. (I was a consultant on planning this conference.)

“Honoring Conflict as an Opportunity for Transformation” to Americorps of Kinston, NC in September, 2007 and in Asheville, NC in 2006.

Panelist, Lawyers as Peacemakers CLE, 28th Judicial District Bar, Fall, 2007. (Co-coordinated this very successful CLE series.)

Round-table discussion on Diversity in Collaborative Law, International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, annual conference, Toronto, ONT, October, 2007.

Co-founder, co-organizer and leader of Imagine-Nation Conference, intergenerational conference for social change activists in Dallas, TX in September, 2007.

Co-organizer and co-leader of conference on Sacred Activism of Asheville (primary local facilitator) in Spring, 2007.

Arriving as a participant at Harvard Law School’s Harvard Negotiation Insight Initiative week-long program in June, 2007, I ended up co-teaching sections on Restorative Justice and Collaborative Law with the paid faculty (David Hall, David Hoffman, Susan Daicoff)

Presenter, “Expanding The Goals of Legal Education,” Institute of Law School Teaching, Suffolk University Law School, June, 2007.

Co-organizer and facilitator of “Power, Leadership, and Values”, annual conference of International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers in Asheville, NC in May, 2007.

Presenter, Co-Organizer, Basic and Advanced Collaborative Law Training, Asheville, NC, May, 2007.

Renaissance Lawyering, Festival of Legal Learning, Co-presenter, February, 2007.

Leader and Organizer of International Symposium “No Borders, No Barriers: Collaborative Practice for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual/Transgender Clients & Their Families” in Niagara, ONT, June, 2006. http://collablaw.org/symposium.htm

Co-Leader, “Restorative Justice Community Conference” & “Working Effectively with Victims & Offenders”, Community Justice Program, County Attorneys Office, Yuma, Arizona, July, 2006

“From Vision to Reality”, Landmark Education Conference for Global Transformation, San Francisco about my work in the legal profession, May 2006.

Co-leader of “Family Lawyers as Peacemakers? Basic Collaborative Law Training for Lawyers, May, 2006 in Asheville, NC

Leader, “A Potpourri of Skills for Being a More Effective Collaborative Lawyer” Advanced Collaborative Law Training, Finger Lakes Collaborative Lawyers, Ithaca, NY, June 1, 2006

“Honoring Conflict as an Opportunity for Transformation”, North Carolina Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Southwest Chapter Lunch & Learn on April 27, 2006.

New Bottom Line Lawyers Teleconference: “Lawyers as peacemakers, problem solvers and healers of conflict - including issues in collaborative law, transformative mediation, and therapeutic jurisprudence” on April 26, 2006. Update/second appearance: March, 2008. Sponsored by Network of Spiritual Progressives.

Panelist at the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals in Atlanta in October, 2005 with the topic of access to justice/multi-cultural practices (which led to appointment to IACP Task Force on Inclusivity, Diversity and Accessibility)

Planned, presented, and facilitated conference on “The Role of Peacemakers in Healing Polarization” in Black Mountain, NC in July, 2005.

“Conscious Lawyering?” Presidio Dialogues, Conversation Starter, San Francisco, CA, 2004

“Collaborative Divorce Mediation, Opportunities for Partnership”, Northwest Dispute Resolution Conference, “Dispute Resolution from the Insight Out”, Seattle, WA. 2003

“Living Life and Practicing Law”, Co-Presenter, Mecklenburg County Bar Association CLE, Charlotte, NC 2003.

Facilitator and presenter at Renaissance Lawyer Society annual conferences, 2001, 2002, 2003.

“Legal & Ethical Issues for Coaches”, Coachville Expert Series, First Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2002. (Audience of over 1000 coaches)

Organizer and speaker of multi-disciplinary “Latinos in Legal System” conference in Alamance County, NC. 2000

Organizer and panelist of ethics panel on domestic violence as debrief of a case which ended in the death of my client at the hands of her husband who was killed by police. The opposing counsel and judge served as panelists as we unpacked what we did and how we might have done it differently. 1999

Organizer and panelist of statewide conference on domestic violence, Gainesville, FL 1990.

Trained law enforcement, parole officers, victim advocates, and community members on dynamics of domestic violence. 1989-90

Many presentations to church groups, bar associations, radio programs, teleclass guest speaking engagements. Have hosted several series of teleclasses.