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Stephen A. Klein - Washington, DC

1350 I Street, Northwest Washington, DC 20005

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Updated: 07/17/2024

Washington Complex Litigation Lawyer

Overview

Stephen A. Klein litigates complex cases in the areas of government contract disputes, insurance coverage litigation, toxic tort and pharmaceutical products defense, and also practices in the area of regulatory counseling. For more than a decade, he has represented major government and commercial contractors in contract disputes, bid protests, requests for equitable adjustment, and claims. He recently conducted a 5-week trial in Arkansas state court in Phase I of a bifurcated complex construction and engineering contract dispute involving a near billion-dollar ammonia plant expansion, and he expects to conduct an 8-week Phase II trial next year over hundreds of millions of dollars of cross-claims between the project owner and the Firm’s client. He headed up the Firm’s representation of a major debris removal contractor that had a multitude of claims and bid protests involving work for the Army Corps of Engineers arising out of the Hurricane Katrina cleanup and other disaster responses. Mr. Klein successfully first-chaired a three-day evidentiary trial before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals in which he won an eight-figure award for his client, and he has routinely appeared before administrative boards and the Court of Federal Claims. He also served on the trial team during a three-week trial involving delay claims by a bridge contractor against the State of Alabama.

Mr. Klein looks for creative solutions to his clients’ problems and is not afraid to take an unorthodox approach where it serves his clients’ interests. In one bid protest, for instance, he successfully challenged his clients’ award of several contracts under a single solicitation on the ground that his client unfairly was denied additional contract awards, thereby requiring the agency to recompete the entire set of interrelated contracts. He prevailed on this argument before the Court of Federal Claims, and his client ultimately received additional and a more desirable mix of contract awards.

Mr. Klein has effectively employed the government contractor defense to protect contractor clients from specious claims made by third parties and has written on the subject. He brings a creative and critical analysis to all of his representations.

On behalf of diverse corporate policyholders, Mr. Klein has successfully pursued coverage for mass-product liability exposures (involving claims by individuals, putative classes, and the United States and Canadian governments), environmental liability, and asbestos liability. The matters which he undertakes tend to be complex and multi-faceted; for example, he represented a major asbestos defendant with respect to its insurance assets throughout a multi-year bankruptcy, successfully navigating through and around competing claims to the insurance by a number of unrelated corporate indemnitors and indemnitees as well as by the asbestos claimants. Mr. Klein frequently writes in the insurance field and has authored a number of articles and treatises to assist policyholders in maximizing their insurance recoveries.

In the pharmaceutical and toxic tort areas, Mr. Klein has worked on major post-Daubert federal and state court cases, and has extensive experience in presenting and defending against complex scientific proofs. He has led the Firm’s representation as national counsel of a major pharmaceutical defendant with regard to mass litigation involving his client’s product in consolidated tort proceedings across the country, including a federal multidistrict litigation. He also regularly advises pharmaceutical and other clients on regulatory matters in multiple areas, including labeling, regulatory reporting, pharmacovigilance, product recalls (including with regard to insurance coverage for same), and the preparation and submission of regulatory filings such as supplemental New Drug Applications and the like.

Mr. Klein has been involved in the defense of alleged occupational torts and environmental contamination claims. His practice as well has included work in general corporate litigation, regulatory law, bankruptcy, and environmental liabilities.

Mr. Klein was a member of the Michigan Law Review.

About Stephen A. Klein

Current Employment Position(s)

  • Partner

Practice Areas

  • Complex Litigation
  • Federal Claims
  • Government Contracts
  • Insurance
  • Pharmaceutical Products
  • Toxic Torts & Products Liability

Qualifications

Bar Admissions

  • District of Columbia
  • New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Education

  • The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Law Review: Michigan Law Review, Member
  • University of Pennsylvania, 1987
    B.A.
    Honors: magna cum laude

Office Information

Address

1350 I Street, Northwest Washington, DC 20005

Fax

  • (202) 682-1639

Achievements

Other Sources of Feedback About Stephen A. Klein

Included on the 2024 Washington DC Super Lawyers list


Past Lists

  • 2023 Washington DC Super Lawyers list

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