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Counsel and Assistant General Counsel, Office of General Counsel
Richmond
(804) 788-8755 Phone
(804) 343-4663 Fax
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Assistant General Counsel for the Firm. Practice focuses on professional liability defense and other law firm related problems, internal investigations, electronic discovery and subpoena compliance, legal and ethical issues relating to legal practice and law firm management, and bankruptcy matters. Practice also encompasses general civil litigation and appellate advocacy.
Relevant Experience 
- Handles law firm and legal department problems including defense of professional malpractice claims and subpoena compliance.
- Preparation of policies related to law firm management and ethical issues.
- Formerly represented major corporate clients in all aspects of antitrust, franchising and distribution litigation, intellectual property and related matters, both during the pre-trial and trial stages and on appeal.
- Successfully argued motion for summary judgment on behalf of major U.S. brewery in Virginia Beer Franchise Act case.
- Successfully argued motion to dismiss Virginia Beer Franchise Act complaint on behalf of major U.S. brewery and defeated motion to amend.
- Defended well-known construction equipment manufacturer in nationwide dealer termination litigation arising from market withdrawals of product lines.
- Experienced in appellate advocacy at state and federal levels, including co-authorship of amicus curiae briefs to United States Supreme Court in significant Fourth and Fifth Amendment case and in False Claims Act case.
- Argued damages issues in multi-million dollar arbitration case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
- Argued before Supreme Court of Virginia, including rezoning case involving Virginia Conflict of Interests Act (COIA) and case involving renewal of mining lease.
- Assisted in overturning $60 million jury verdict in brain injury case upon appeal to state supreme court.
- Succeeded in obtaining asylum for pro bono client fleeing political persecution in Liberia, serving as lead counsel in briefing and at trial.
- Broad additional litigation experience in areas including environmental litigation and toxic torts, mass tort litigation and class actions, automotive and other product liability, construction disputes, labor and employment defense, medical malpractice defense and other health care issues, and constitutional matters.
- Successfully defended major corporate clients in asbestos- and vinyl chloride-related product liability, premises liability, and FELA claims.
- Taught appellate advocacy class as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law for the University of Richmond's T.C. Williams School of Law (Spring Semester 2008).
- Formerly held managerial position at, and provided in-house legal advice to, well-known public policy research organization with focus on civil liberties and free enterprise.
Background
- Judicial Clerkship, Hon. Andrew J. Kleinfeld, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1994-95
Membership
- Virginia State Bar
- The District of Columbia Bar
- Alaska Bar Association
- American Bar Association (Forum on Franchising; Council of Appellate Lawyers)
- Admitted to practice: Virginia (1994), Alaska (1995, inactive status), D.C. (2010)
Awards and Professional Recognition
Education - J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, Virginia Law Review, 1992-94; Quarterfinalist, William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition, 1994
- B.A., University of Virginia, Government, with high distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, 1991
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M. Klein
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