Principal’s Biography
Kim Sawyer, TLSG’s President and General Counsel, is an attorney with more than seventeen years experience in unclaimed property law and is also an expert in public records law.
Attorney Sawyer began her legal career at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Department of Revenue. She served as Counsel to the Revenue Commissioner and represented the Commonwealth before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Appellate Tax Board. She continued her legal career as an Associate at Parker, Coulter, Daley & White, practicing in the firm’s Directors and Officer’s Liability Department. Prior to establishing TLSG, she served as Vice President and General Counsel of SeaQuest Partners Ltd., an asset recovery firm.
Attorney Sawyer attended drafting sessions of the 1995 Uniform Unclaimed Property Act and actively assisted the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Department of Treasury with drafting of Massachusetts’s 2000 Unpaid Check Fund State Regulations. She has successfully prosecuted numerous public record cases and appeals against federal, state and local governments concerning TLSG’s right to information regarding outstanding vendor and refund payments owed to its clients. In 2008, Attorney Sawyer argued and won a landmark public records decision in the Vermont Supreme Court. Additionally, in 2007 she successfully litigated against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in connection with eminent domain interest payments owed by the Commonwealth to TLSG’s clients, recovering a judgment of more than $1,700,000.00. Ms. Sawyer was also a featured speaker on unclaimed property recovery at the Unclaimed Property Professional's Organization’s 2009 and 2010 Annual Conferences.
Attorney Sawyer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from Clark University. She received her JD from Boston University School of Law, is a member of the New York and Massachusetts bars and has also been admitted to practice in the United States District for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Attorney Sawyer is one of sixty candidates accepted to attend the upcoming 2010 Tuck-WBENC Executive Program at Dartmouth College. Additionally, she was nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, which recognizes those individuals whose “ingenuity, hard work, and innovation have fostered successful growth businesses.” She is also an active member of the Women Presidents' Organization, the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation, the Unclaimed Property Professionals Organization and Women Impacting Public Policy. Attorney Sawyer is involved with a number of charities including: Second Step, The Children’s Trust Fund, The Foundation to be Named Later and the Home for Little Wanderers.
