Practice Areas - Litigation
- Business Law
- Commercial Law
- Construction Law
- Contract Disputes
- Copyright Infringement
- Insurance Bad Faith
- Intellectual Property Law
- Landlord and Tenant Law
- Appeals
- Mechanics Liens
- Partnership Disputes
- Personal Injury Plaintiff
- Personal Injury Defense
- Premises Liability Law
- Products Liability Law
| - Real Estate Law
- Shareholder Disputes
- Trademark Infringement
- Trade Secret Theft
- Trials
- Unfair Competition
- Unlawful Detainer
- Trade Secrets
- Theft of Trade Secrets
- Trade Secret Misappropriation
- Commercial Real Estate Contracts
- Commercial Real Estate Litigation
- Legal Malpractice
- Legal Malpractice Defense
- Legal Negligence
- Legal Professional Liability
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| Contact Info | Telephone: 949-631-3300
Fax: 949-631-3703
http://www.kleinandwilson.com
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| University | State University of New York at Albany, B.A., magna cum laude, 1978 |
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| Law School | University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1982 |
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| Admitted | 1982, California; 1983, U.S. District Court, Central District of California; 1985, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court; 1990, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California |
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| Memberships | State Bar of California; Orange County Bar Association (Member, Business Litigation Section; Chairman, 2007); Orange County Trial Lawyers Association (Board Member, 2002-present; Board of Directors, 2002-2006); Association of Business Trial Lawyers (Board of Governors, 2004-present; Program Chair, 2007; Annual Event Chair, 2008-2009); College of Trial Advocacy (Chairman, 2002); American Board of Trial Advocates (Associate, 2009-present). |
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| Languages | English |
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| Born | Great Neck, New York, June 23, 1956 |
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| Biography | Russell P. Serber Memorial Scholar; New York State Regents Scholar. Recipient: Phi Alpha Theta Award for History and Classics. Named: Super Lawyers magazine, 2005-2011; Trial Lawyer of the Year, Business Litigation, 2003 and Professional Negligence, 2009 by Orange County Trial Lawyers Association; OC's Top Attorneys by OC Metro Magazine, 2010-2011. Author: "The Art of Cross-Examination," (OCTLA Gavel, Fall 2010); "Creating a Masterpiece: The Art of Direct Examination," (OCTLA Gavel, Spring 2010); "Multi-Media Presentations at Mediation," (Advocate, January 2006); "The CEO as Witness: Super Hero or Arch Villain," (ABTL Report, Summer 2005); "Taking Care of Business on a Contingency Fee," (OCTLA Gavel, April 2003); "Animations - Star Wars Technology in the Courtroom," (Forum, Vol. 28, No. 10, December 1998); "Litigation: Using Mock Trials Effectively," (California Lawyer, May 1998); "Multimedia Trial Presentations," (Claims People Magazine, Vol. 7, June 1996); "Proposition 51 and the House that Tech-Bilt," (California Lawyer, Vol. 6, November 1986). Deputy District Attorney, Ventura County, California, 1982-1983. Instructor: Construction Law, California State University; Modern Trial Tactics, University of California. With more than 25 years of legal experience, Gerald A. Klein currently handles a wide variety of litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants throughout Southern California in the areas of business litigation, legal malpractice, unfair competition, insurance bad faith, real estate, trade secrets, construction defect, products liability, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, and securities disputes. As a former deputy district attorney, Mr. Klein is at home in the courtroom. He is an expert in multimedia trial presentations, which incorporate document presentation systems, video, and animation. Mr. Klein has given over 40 lectures regarding modern trial tactics to the trial departments of the nation's largest law firms, as well as to bar associations, Inns of Court, and many of the district attorney offices in Southern California. |
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| ISLN | 905838722 |
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