Donald A. Klein

Of Counsel

Donald A. Klein's litigation experience includes substantial practices in reinsurance, commercial, First Amendment and procedural law.

Mr. Klein has a broad range of reinsurance litigation and arbitration experience involving issues including:

• Insolvency
• Early closure
• Claim estimation
• Coverage disputes
• Federal Arbitration Act
• Convention Act
• Follow the fortunes
• Bad faith

Mr. Klein also has practiced media law for more than 30 years and has handled cases involving legal issues, including:

• Libel
• Privacy
• Reporter's privilege
• Access

He is a former member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee and a Bergen County District Ethics Committee.

Experience

• In re Integrity Ins., 165 N.J. 75, 754 A 2d 1177 (2000), addressing the right of a liquidator to assert deliberative process privilege in discovery
• Suter v. Munich Reinsurance Co., 223 F.3d 150 (3rd Cir. 2000), involving the right of a foreign reinsurer to remove an adversary complaint from a state liquidation proceeding and to demand arbitration of the dispute
• Fortune v. Schiavone, 477 U.S. 21, 91 L.Ed.2d 18, 106 S.Ct. 2379 (1986), deciding limitation of actions and First Amendment issues
• Turf Lawnmower Repair, Inc., v. Bergen Record Corporation, 139 N.J. 193, 655 A. 2d 417 (1995), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 1066 (1996), applying actual malice standard to consumer report under New Jersey common law

Previous Experience

Mr. Klein formerly served in the U.S. Navy as a legal officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps (1973-1975).

Awards and Honors

AV(T) Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

Education

Teaching Appointments

Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law (1979-2000)
New Jersey Civil Practice

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

Civic and Charitable Memberships

Ridgewood (N.J.) YMCA
Board of Trustees