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J.
Kim Wright J.D., is a pioneer in the field of law as a healing
profession. A graduate of the University of Florida College of Law,
she passed the North Carolina Bar in 1994, her third successful bar
exam and the only membership that she currently maintains. She was
the original founder of the Renaissance Lawyer Society, a non-profit
organization of lawyers “supporting legal transformation and
innovation” and wrote their original web site of almost 400 pages
of information. The “RLS” site showcased ways of practicing law
that were solution-oriented, collaborative, restorative, peacemaking
and healing and promoted the new approaches as a movement and new
paradigm of law.
Since the late 1990's, she has been speaking, writing, and interacting with
lawyers about this new paradigm of law. She is widely recognized as
one of the leaders defining and guiding the movement. In her work,
she has met thousands of lawyers and has developed meaningful
connections with key leaders who are influential with thousands of
other lawyers. She has consulted with media - mainstream,
professional and alternative.
After
years of working in the field, she identified the need for a central
information resource and “virtual community center”. She launched
CuttingEdgeLaw.com in March, 2009. As the
publisher and managing editor of CuttingEdgeLaw.com, she and her
business partner, Michael Matthews, have interviewed over 100
lawyers, law professors, law students, judges, and allied
professionals who are working to create a new paradigm of legal
practice. CuttingEdgeLaw.com
combines her commitment to a new model of law with years of study of
transformational technology, social construction, conflict
resolution, socially responsible business, human dynamics,
neuroscience, and learning theory.
Kim
coaches lawyers on transforming their law practices. She
develops continuing legal education programs and has published many
articles and chapters in magazines and books. She is involved in
several think-tanks and support circles and is working on a
documentary series about law. She also has been an adjunct professor at three colleges, including
her alma mater, Warren Wilson College, in Asheville where she majored
in Business Management and International Studies.
In
November of 2009, the ABA named Kim as one of the 50 “Legal Rebels
who are “finding new ways to
practice law, represent their clients, adjudicate cases and train the
next generation of lawyers,”
In
2009, the American Bar Association contacted Kim to author a book
detailing this new paradigm in law. Lawyers
as Peacemakers: Practicing Holistic, Problem-Solving Law was
released April 2010 and reached the ABA best seller list from
pre-orders alone. It was also named one of the 50 Flagship Books for
the American Bar Association.
“J.
Kim Wright is a very strong example of a “Gravitational Core” of
a conversation—whereby the conversations that constitute
“restorative justice” etc. find her, and the more they find her,
the more mass there is, and thus more conversations tend to find
her.” -Scott
Wolf, Performance and Leadership Consultant at Sunergos Consulting
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Kim raised 16
children: two birth children, plus step-children and other children
who needed a home. Kim started law school with seven children at
home, ages spanning 2-16 years old. Her title has since
expanded to include “grandmother” and her oldest grandson just
became a father.
In
Spring of 2008, Kim gave up her home and office and began to travel
full-time. Since then she has been in 28 states and considers
herself one of the new breed of location independent professionals
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J.
Kim Wright
For more information, see www.cuttingedgelaw.com
Email: jkimwright@gmail.com
Phone: 828 279 1957
