Sharon Kim

Sharon Kim is a Senior Litigation Counsel at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP. At Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP, Sharon’s practice focuses on, among other areas, financial services litigation, public interest litigation, and employment discrimination and retaliation. Sharon received her law degree from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. While at Harvard Law School, she served as a student attorney with the Criminal Justice Institute and the Education Law Clinic. She also interned with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the Boston Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the General Counsel’s Office of the U.S. Department of Defense. Prior to law school, Sharon served as a paralegal in the Business and Securities Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. While at Harvard, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and she received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, Ethnic Studies Senior Thesis Prize, and Evon Z. Vogt Prize for her ethnographic and multi-disciplinary work on post-genocide Cambodia. Before joining Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP, Sharon was an associate at Big Law firms, where she gained substantial experience in complex commercial and pro bono litigation (including cases that went to trial and dispositive hearings), government and internal investigations, and regulatory matters. Among other representations, she was a key member of the team that successfully represented the trustees of a nurses’ pension plan against the plan’s former investment manager for violations of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act when it entered into self-dealing arrangements with the plan. As part of her pro bono practice, Sharon secured favorable outcomes in sex and pregnancy discrimination, excessive force, and special education cases, and also worked on fair housing and eviction, gun control, and voting rights cases. Sharon also spent time as a vice president in the litigation finance division of an investment management firm. When Sharon is not lawyering, she enjoys reading and writing poetry, delving into books on corporate and political accountability, breaking bread with beloved friends and colleagues, and taking care of her parents (while eating delicious deli sandwiches). Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Sharon Kim included in a Super Lawyers® list Other Sources of Feedback About Sharon Kim Included on the 2025New York Metro Super Lawyers list

• Senior Litigation Counsel

• Criminal Justice Institute
• Education Law Clinic
• Independent externship at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, Criminal Division
• Independent externship at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Boston Regional Office
• Independent externship at the U.S. Department of Defense, General Counsel’s Office, International Affairs Section

• New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Central District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin