Kim, Lois S.

Admitted to New Mexico Bar 1989;California, 1994. 

Education: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Diploma in Nursing, 1975); College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (B.S.N. cum laude 1986); University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico (J.D. 1989 with Honors in Clinical Law and the Moise Prize for Judicial and Legal Ethics); She has completed additional courses in comprehensive mediation skills, family mediation and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. 

Member: State Bars of New Mexico and California

Employment: Prior to entering law school, Ms. Kiersnowski was a Registered Nurse and worked in a variety of settings. From 1975 to 1978 she worked at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From 1978 to 1981, Ms. Kiersnowski worked at Sage Memorial Hospital on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Ganado, Arizona. From 1981 to 1986, she worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, at the Indian Health Service Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Prior to joining the Nordhaus Law Firm in 1991, Ms. Kiersnowski was a federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable E. L. Mechem, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of New Mexico.

Ms. Kiersnowski was an associate attorney with the Nordhaus Law Firm from 1991 to 1993 during which time she practiced in the areas of Indian and health law. Ms. Kiersnowski also taught Health Law as an adjunct faculty member of the University of New Mexico School of Law in the Fall of 1992.

From 1993 to 1995, Ms. Kiersnowski worked as a staff attorney for California Indian Legal Services where she practiced exclusively in the areas of Indian and poverty law.

Ms. Kiersnowski returned to the Nordhaus Law Firm as an associate attorney in 1995, and became a partner in 2001. In 2008, Ms. Kiersnowski left the law firm to focus exclusively on mediation. Since April, 2011 Ms. Kiersnowski has been Of Counsel to the Nordhaus Law Firm in addition to her mediation practice. She now focuses on mediation, economic development, financing transactions, developing consumer credit, employment issues, and provides general counsel advice to Indian tribes and tribally-owned business entities. She also advises and represents Indian tribes regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act.