Denver Lawyer: Beth Klein's History
In November 2006, Beth was selected as one of the 500 Leading Plaintiff's Lawyers in the United States by Lawdragon.
She possesses the skill, dedication, and creativity needed to obtain for her clients the just compensation and restitution they deserve. She has been instrumental in winning large class action settlements, with awards ranging from $15 million to more than $1 billion. The results depend upon the facts of each case.
Beth Klein was born and raised in Colorado. She graduated second in her class at Truman University, summa cum laude. She received a Rotary International Scholarship to Ireland where she received Honours, First Class.
Beth attended the University of Denver, College of Law where she was an editor for the Denver Law Review. She started trying cases before she graduated with the City Attorney's office in Denver.
Beth Klein was inducted into the Fellows of the Colorado Bar in 2004. She was inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum in 2005.
She served as a Trustee of the Town of Erie, Colorado and was instrumental in writing the Town's UDC, securing water rights for the Town's future, enhancing safety practices and accessibility for the physically challenged.
She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and admitted to practice in federal courts in Colorado, Kentucky, Illinois and in the Tenth Circuit.
Beth Klein has served clients on both sides of the fence and has a unique, well-rounded view of evidence and the trial process. In the 90s, she was personally selected to serve as National Trial Counsel to Owens Corning in a high-profile series of asbestos litigation cases. She represented corporations in high-risk cases (cases that had a potential jury award of $5 million or more) until she was asked by the plaintiff's counsel to change sides and represent people who had been diagnosed with asbestos related cancer and mesothelioma.
A talented instructor, Ms. Klein teaches other lawyers how to be effective advocates. She is a long-standing faculty member of NITA, where she teaches basic and master's level trial skills to lawyers from all states. In January 2005 Beth Klein was awarded the Martindale-Hubbell NITA Faculty Designation. This designation has been awarded to a limited number of NITA Faculty that have taught in at least 7 NITA public programs and have student evaluations that average 6.2 or higher on a scale of 7.0.
Having taught at the University of Denver College of Law and the University of Colorado School of Law, she is a sought-after lecturer and has been asked to present seminars on effective witness presentation, trial design, class action structure, and complex litigation including defective drugs and medical devices. Her paper on class action and the practical protection of class members has been published.
Beth limits her practice to a small number of cases in which she truly believes in her clients and the case.
Beth is a Fellow of the Colorado Bar Foundation. Selection as a fellow is limited to no more than five percent of the lawyers in Colorado and "is recognition of a lawyer as one whose professional, public, and private career has demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of the community, the traditions of the profession and the maintenance and advancement of the objectives of the Colorado Bar Association."The Colorado Bar Foundation promotes the advancement of jurisprudence, the administration of justice and the dissemination of educational information to practicing attorneys and to members of the general public through grants and contributions.
Beth donates a substantial amount of her firm's proceeds to charities that support low income and at risk children. Every year the firm selects its Charity of the Year to which it donates a percentage of the annual profits. She founded the Children's Angels, a program that offers support to the most abused children that are involved in the Court system.
She is also working on projects to bring suit against pedophiles to compensate their young victims.
Beth has been married for over 20 years to Judge Klein of the Boulder District Court, and she has one terrific son.
Most of all, Beth believes that the practice of law is a service and that lawyers need to pay it forward every day.
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