Practice / Specifications:
Caroline Kim is an Associate Attorney at Franco Moroney Buenik. Ms. Kim specializes in complex litigation matters in the following areas: Construction and Transportation law, Insurance Defense, Personal Injury Defense, Employment Practices Liability, and Professional Liability. Ms. Kim has focused her practice in construction law and complex insurance coverage litigation, representing insurers and commercial clients nationally. Previously, Ms. Kim focused her practice on Insurance Coverage, Bad Faith litigation, representing insurers and reinsurers in a wide range of coverage matters, including mass tort, product liability, class action, construction defect, environmental, healthcare, and professional liability claims. She also defends insurers in bad faith lawsuits. Ms. Kim has also served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Lewis M. Nixon in the mortgage foreclosure/mechanics lien section of the Circuit Court of Cook County in the Chancery Division. As a judicial law clerk, she oversaw mechanics lien and mortgage foreclosure cases on a wide variety of complex construction disputes involving foreclosure of mechanics lien, breach of contract, construction defects, delay claims, indemnification claims, constructive fraud, and attorney’s fees.
During law school, Ms. Kim gained valuable litigation experience through competitive externship placements at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois with the Honorable Charles P. Kocoras and the Honorable Thomas M. Durkin. She has also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Justice Michael B. Hyman at the First District, Illinois Appellate Court and the Honorable Timothy P. Murphy in the Domestic Relations Division at the Circuit Court of Cook County.
Ms. Kim served as Lead Articles Editor of The John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law in law school. She is also the Cali Award Recipient for Cybersecurity Law.
Education:
- The University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, Certificate in Trial Advocacy, 2019.
- Northwestern University, Master of Arts in Public Policy & Administration, Specialization in Global Policy, 2015.
- The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bachelor of Arts in Visual Critical Studies, Honors Merit Scholar, 2012.
Admissions:
- Illinois State Bar, 2021
- Missouri State Bar, 2021
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2022
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, 2023
- United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, 2023
Memberships & Affiliations:
- Illinois State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Asian American Bar Association
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
Related News & Articles:
- Caroline E. Kim’s Artwork featured on the cover of the CBA Record January 2019.
- Asian American Attorneys Share What Has Made a Difference in Their Careers (2civility.org).
Articles and Presentations:
- Caroline E. Kim, Insta-Fringement: What is a Fair Use on Social Media?, 18 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 102 (2018).
- Moderator, “ABA, Section of International Law, Global Sports Corruption: A Challenging Frontier in International Business and International Law,” Seoul, South Korea (2019).
