Seongsoo Kim is the managing partner and head of the Labor & Employment Group. An expert litigator, he has represented many multinationals and leading Korean industrial and financial groups at trial and appellate levels in administrative and civil cases, as well as white collar criminal defense and labor & employment disputes. He has also led Bae, Kim & Lee LLC teams in high-profile actions across a wide spectrum of claims, such as corporate wrongdoing, environmental claims, automotive defects, telecommunication regulations and trade secret violations. Before joining BKL, where he leads our labor dispute resolution work, he served as a judge for 19 years, rising to the presiding judge of the Seoul Central District Court in 2015. He is noted for his public sector work on refugee legal issues, serving on the Refugee Recognition Committee (Ministry of Justice) in 2009-2014. He is a graduate of Seoul National University (1993), and was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Law School (2002).