Attorney

Kimberly Murray RN, BSN, ESQ.

Kim has been a Registered Nurse for 28 years and an attorney for over 20 years.   She is passionate about helping others build their families with adoption and with the aid of reproductive medicine.  Kim understands personally the stress and anxiety caused by both infertility and the adoption process.  Both are extremely stress-producing in their own ways.  Kim is a proud adopted mom who struggled herself with secondary infertility and went through years of fertility treatments and multiple miscarriages.  Kim and her husband also went through a failed adoption before they adopted their precious daughter.  It is during these trying times that you need someone on your side who understands not only the legal challenges that you may face but also the emotional toll that such stressors can place on your mind, body, and relationships.  Both adoption and undergoing assisted reproductive treatments, including surrogacy, can not only be economically and legally challenging but also can cause a great deal of stress at a time when you are likely most vulnerable.  Kim and her husband saw through their own journey how difficult the process is and how challenging the obstacles can be that one can encumber during the process.  It is with this knowledge and the desire and passion to help others having to go through some of the same challenges that Kim started her own practice in Adoption and ART law.

Kim received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, magna cum laude, from Florida State University and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from Stetson University College of Law. Kim has been a Registered Nurse since 1994.  Prior to becoming a licensed attorney, Kim practiced nursing in various specialties, including neonatal intensive care and mental health nursing.  While in law school, Kim served as a judicial intern for the Honorable J. Thomas McGrady.  One of Kim’s fondest memories is being “sworn in” to practice law by Judge McGrady, who later became the Chief Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit.  Kim was also proud to be the chosen recipient of the Alexandar Paskay Bankruptcy Award from her graduating class from the late Honorable Alexander Paskay, who was one of her professors and mentors.

Following her admission to the Florida Bar, Kim worked in private practice in the areas of medical malpractice, nursing home abuse, personal injury and wrongful death. Kim also worked as a Senior Attorney for the Agency for Healthcare Administration and as an Assistant Attorney General for the Florida Attorney General’s Office in the Children’s Legal Services Division handling child abuse and neglect cases.  Many of her cases involved children who were placed in foster care and ultimately adopted.  In 2009, Kim joined Danahy & Murray, P.A., where she practiced civil litigation alongside her husband representing individuals who were forced to get into legal disputes with their own insurance companies.  In 2020, Kim decided to follow her passion and open her own firm helping others to successfully follow their dreams to become parents.

Kim is passionately dedicated to providing pro bono service in areas that directly affect children and families.  Kim has been a Guardian ad Litem, both in Hillsborough (currently) and Bay counties, for over 7 years.  In this role, she advocates for children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse and/or neglect.  Many of these children are in foster placements.   Kim has had the joy of observing many of her cases end in adoption.  Kim also spends a great amount of time volunteering for an organization that is very dear to her heart, the Heart Gallery of Tampa, and is Chair of the Community Outreach Committee, 2020-2022.  The Heart Gallery of Tampa helps find loving, permanent, adoptive homes for the most difficult foster cases to place in the Tampa Bay area.   Kim is also an active volunteer with the Lamplighters of Tampa, a volunteer organization that benefits Joshua House (a group home for foster children) and Metropolitan Ministries (an organization that assists homeless families in our community).  Kim also accepts pro bono cases dealing with adoption from Bay Area Legal Services.

Kim’s vast experience as both a nurse and an attorney, as well as her own personal experience of being an adoptive mom and a former fertility patient, gives her a unique perspective, empathy, and insight into what others are struggling with.  She is dedicated to supporting her clients with a strong sense of professional and personal commitment and a strong sense of purpose.

Kim is admitted to practice before all state courts in the State of Florida and in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.  Kim is a member of several professional associations, including the Florida Bar (Family and Health Care Law Sections),  Hillsborough County Bar Association (Family and Health Care Sections),  The American Association of Nurse Attorneys (TAANA), member, TAANA Board of Directors, the American Bar Association (member of the Family Law Sections and Assisted Reproductive Technology committee), Resolve, the Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers, the Florida Association for Women Lawyers, and the Florida Adoption Council.