PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jae Choi Kim is an Associate at Boodell & Domanskis, where she practices in the field of business law, estate planning, business immigration, real estate and intellectual property. Prior to receiving her law degree, Ms. Kim worked in the private sector running a family business and in government. Her business experience includes managing, financing, negotiating business sales, real estate development and transactions, environmental remediation and compliance, and negotiating with the Internal Revenue Service on various tax matters.
In government, Ms. Kim worked as a Staff Assistant for United States Senator Carol Moseley-Braun. She was responsible for issues concerning the State of Illinois in the areas of international trade, NAFTA, the U.S. State Department, immigration and Asian affairs. As a Staff Assistant, Ms. Kim represented the Senator at various business and constituent functions. While in government, Ms. Kim lobbied and coordinated a hearing on civil rights issues, which resulted in a publication: "Civil Rights Issues Facing Asian Americans in Metropolitan Chicago" by the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Ms. Kim is currently the legal counsel to the Korean American Women's Association of Chicago. Long active in civic and community work, Ms. Kim is a member of the Illinois Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission, an advisor to the Asian American Institute and a board member of the Illinois Ethnic Coalition. She has also served on boards and advisory committees to various public organizations such as the Academic Accountability Council of the Chicago Public Schools, Columbia College Small Business Advisory Committee, and the City Colleges of Chicago Minority and Women Business Advisory Board.
In recognition of her civic activities, Ms. Kim received various awards such as the National Asian Pacific American Law Foundation 2001 Presidential Scholarship, American Pluralism Award by the Illinois Ethnic Coalition in 1997, and Community Service Award from the Korean American Community Services and from the Korean American Merchants Association in 1994. In 1997, she was invited to be a fellow of the Leadership Greater Chicago. Ms. Kim was one of ten Asian American leaders in the country invited by the American Jewish Committee to participate in an educational seminar in Israel in 1994. She has served as the spokesperson on behalf of the Korean American community in the Chicago area during the Los Angeles riots in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict in 1992. In recognition of her work in inter-group relations, she was awarded the Woman of Excellence for Community Development Award by Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
EDUCATION
Jae Choi Kim received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 1983 and a Juris Doctor (cum laude) and a Certificate in General Intellectual Property from DePaul University College of Law in February 2002. She is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, and the Asian American Bar Association. Ms. Kim is fluent in Korean and moderately fluent in Spanish.
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