Adam T. Klein
ADAM T. KLEIN is Managing Partner of Outten & Golden LLP, and founded the firm's class action practice area. His practice focuses on the prosecution of class actions and impact litigation of employment discrimination and wage and hour claims. Mr. Klein currently serves as lead or co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in numerous major class action lawsuits involving discrimination claims in the financial services industry, the high tech industry, and challenges to the use of credit and criminal history records for employment decisions.
Mr. Klein represents the Metropolitan Council of the New York State Conference of the NAACP in challenges to the use of criminal history records as a screen for employment. In addition, Mr. Klein serves as co-lead plaintiffs' class counsel in now settled nationwide discrimination class action lawsuits against Smith Barney (gender - Amochaev v. Smith Barney), Bank of America/Merrill Lynch (gender – Calibuso v. Bank of America), and Morgan Stanley (race - Jaffe v. Morgan Stanley). Each settlement provides class members with substantial monetary relief and creates systematic changes to company practices. Mr. Klein also served as co-lead plaintiffs' class counsel in a "glass ceiling" gender discrimination class action against MetLife, based on discrimination in promotions and compensation, which resulted in a settlement that created beneficial changes in the company.
Mr. Klein is a Co-Chair of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Class-Based Wage and Hour Litigation
- Employment Discrimination
- Litigation
- Impact Litigation
- New York
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- 2nd Circuit
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- 9th Circuit
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- 11th Circuit
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- English
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- J.D. | Law
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- Best Lawyers in America 2008-2019
- Best Lawyers
- Super Lawyer 2007-2018
- Super Lawyers
- 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers
- Lawdragon
- Hall of Fame
- Legal 500
- 500 Leading Lawyers in America, 2012-2014
- Lawdragon
- 2007-2014
- Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Co-Chair, Executive Committee
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- American Bar Foundation
- Fellow
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- College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
- Fellow
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- National Wage and Hour Clearinghouse
- Member, Advisory Board
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- National Employment Law Association
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- New York State Bar # 2375012
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- National Employment Lawyers Association/New York Affiliate
- Member, Executive Board
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- Use Of Statistical Evidence In Complex Wage Litigation
- Outten & Golden, LLP
- Out of Prison, Out of a Job: "Ban the Box" Movement Seeks an End to Employers' Insidious Use of Criminal Background Checks to Reject Qualified Applicants
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- Racial Discrimination from the Time of "The Butler's Child" until Now
- O&G Employment Law Blog
- Speaker: "Impact Analysis: When To Use It & The Statistics To Support It," National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), NELA 2017 Annual Convention (San Antonio, TX) 2017
- National Employment Law Association
- Speaker: "Deep Diving Equal Pay," American Bar Association, Section of Labor & Employment, National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Austin, TX), 2016
- Speaker: "Class and Collective Actions — Rapid Fire Case Law Update," National CLE Conference - Labor & Employment (Vail, CO), 2015
- Speaker: "Title VII Class Certification—Issues Certification and Targeting Specific Employment Practices Post Dukes and Comcast", National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, ABA Section of Labor & Employment (Miami Beach, FL), 2015
- Faculty: "The Boundaries of the Employment Relationship: Who is an Employee? Who is the Employer?", Eighteenth Annual NYU Workshop on Employment Law for Federal Judges, NYU Labor & Employment Law, Institute of Judicial Administration, NYU University S
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