Attorney Profiles

I am proud to say that workers' compensation and social security disability law has been a part of my life almost from childhood. My father, Lawrence Klein, was a pioneer in the field of workers' compensation. I began my apprenticeship at the age of fifteen, working summers in my father's growing law practice. In the many years since, I have progressed from clerk, to claims examiner, to licensed claimants' representative, to attorney always expanding and refining my knowledge of the law and of the Byzantine system that can sometimes obstruct the ends of justice for the injured worker and small businessman, unless it is negotiated by an aggressive and experienced practitioner.

I have given classes and workshops, and written newsletter articles, for many local unions and Teamsters, including asbestos workers, hazardous waste carters, drivers of baked goods and dairy products, EMS paramedics, butchers and meat-wrappers, the Municipal Police Benevolent Association, and the Mason Tenders Training Fund, SEIU 1199 and Local 79.  I have published an article in the chiropractic journal, New Directions, and I was interviewed by the State Bar News on workers' compensation and carpal tunnel syndrome.

After the tragedy of 9-11, I was honored to be invited by Mount Sinai Hospital's Health for Heroes program to address workers who were disabled as the result of working at Ground Zero, and I have since come to represent hundreds of such injured and disabled Ground Zero cleanup personnel.

I have been interviewed on construction safety and Workers' Compensation on Univision Channel 41.  I am a member of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement.

I am also proud to have donated my time and the time of my staff to the Workplace Project, Centro Del Inmigrante, The Latin American Workers Project and N.I.C.E. (New Immigrant Community Empowerment); all organizations dedicated to the empowerment of immigrant workers. 

I have been interviewed about the epidemic of uninsured employers in The China Press, SingTao Daily, and in the Ming Pao Daily News.