Shim & Associates

In 2012, Haejin Shim, an experienced litigator, co-founded Frecker & Shim LLC with the vision to provide value-oriented legal services and renew law firm culture.Ms. Shim reimagined law practice from multiple perspectives, including the clients?, the partners?, the associate attorneys?, the support staff?s, and the legal community?s.Ms. Shim identified the broken areas of law practice and sought to redeem them, thereby making legal practice more rewarding and fulfilling.In particular, Ms. Shim saw a need for renewed firm culture where lawyers and support staff are professionally cultivated and developed, according to their design and gifts, rather than the traditional rules of promotion.

Ms. Shim considers lawyering as a vocation. The word vocation stems from the Latin word vocare,

which means to call.A job is a vocation only if someone else calls you to do the job and you do it for the benefit of the caller rather than for yourself.Thus, lawyers? work can be a calling, rather than simply a job, when it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond making a living.Accordingly, lawyers are called to represent the interests of their clients as an advocate, advisor, and counselor.With these ideas, Ms. Shim built the firm.

In 2017, Ms. Shim?s team transitioned into Shim & Associates, P.C. and advanced the vision of providing value-oriented legal services and renewing law firmculture by adopting eight core values: (1) We value people?s design; (2) It?s not about me; (3) Means matter; (4) We love people?s design; (5) Advise advocate counsel; (6) Work & rest balance;

(7) Educate to transform; and (8) Serve as a model.Shim & Associates, P.C. is committed to serve our clients with the utmost excellence and professionalism, redeem law practice and firm culture and cultivate the legal professionals for their calling.