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Kimberly "Kim" Wexler is a retired lawyer from Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is the former confidant and estranged wife of Jimmy McGill, whom she met while working at "Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill" as an intern and had dated for several years. Kim's success in completing law school and becoming an associate at HHM helped inspire Jimmy to pursue a legal career, and she later inspired various aspects of Jimmy's Saul Goodman persona. Kim received praise as a lawyer for being highly skilled at negotiation and devising legal strategies in order to get her clients possible, though she was sometimes undermined by Howard Hamlin, her former boss at the firm. After leaving HHM, Kim became the head of Schweikart & Cokely's banking division before focusing her attention on pro bono work. During her relationship with Jimmy, Kim loved him unconditionally and personally defended him on numerous occasions, including representing him at his bar hearing.
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Kimberly Wexler was born on February 13, 1968, and grew up in Red Cloud, Nebraska. As a child, she never had a house to live in as her family never actually owned one due to being very poor. She and her mother would often flee from temporary residences before eviction occurred. When Kim and her mother once shoplifted some earrings and a necklace, Kim began wearing them and continued to do so throughout adulthood. Dissatisfied with the few opportunities she had in Nebraska, Kim moved to Colorado and enrolled at the University of Colorado-Boulder. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree, Kim moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and enrolled in the JD program at the University of New Mexico School of Law, and on the side, she found a job in the mail room of the firm "Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill", who paid for Kim’s law school tuition. It was at this job that she first met Jimmy McGill. Kim worked her way up to becoming one of the go-to litigators at HHM, which helped inspire Jimmy to pursue a legal career himself. With HHM incurring the brunt of her law school tuition, she felt an extreme sense of obligation to the firm.
