Linda A. Klein
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Years In Practice
Ms. Klein practice includes most types of business dispute resolution, including contract law, employment law and professional liability. She has worked extensively with clients in the construction, higher education and pharmaceutical industries.
Ms. Klein is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America®, Who's Who in America and Chambers USA. She is regularly named to the Super Lawyers top 100 lawyers in Georgia, an honor bestowed upon only nine women in 2014. She is also regularly named one of the top 50 female lawyers in Georgia by Super Lawyers. In 1998, following her term as the first woman to serve as president of the State Bar of Georgia, Georgia Trend Magazine named her one of the 100 most powerful and influential Georgians.
Ms. Klein is the immediate past president of the American Bar Association (ABA), the world's largest voluntary professional association. She previously served as chair of the ABA's House of Delegates, the association's policy making body. She has also served as chair of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, chair of the Committee on Rules and Calendar of the House of Delegates, chair of the Coalition for Justice, and chair of ABA Day, the Association's Congressional outreach effort. She is a recent member of the Council of the ABA Section of International Law and also served as a columnist and on the Board of Editors of Law Practice Management Magazine. In 2013 Ms. Klein had the honor of being a McGlothlin fellow on the campuses of William and Mary's Business and Law Schools. In 2012 she delivered the commencement address at the Washington and Lee School of Law. In 2009 Ms. Klein was honored with the Randolph Thrower Award for Lifetime Achievement and was named to the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers. In 2004 the American Bar Association honored Ms. Klein with the prestigious Margaret Brent Achievement Award.
She currently serves on the executive committee of the Buckhead Coalition, on the advisory boards of Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. She is a past president of Southface Energy Institute, the Board of Directors' Network, the Caucus of State Bars, and past chair of both the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia and the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia. She also served a six-year term on Baker Donelson's Board of Directors.
Ms. Klein has authored numerous published works. Her lecture schedule has included presentations in France, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Great Britain and Canada, but most extensively in the southeast United States. She is a member of the American Law Institute, and a mediator and arbitrator, frequently serving as a neutral as well as a client advocate.
- YWCA Leadership Academy 2009
- Sol H. Clark Pro Bono Award
- Randolph Thrower Lifetime Achievement in Diversity Award
- Margaret Brent Woman Lawyer of Achievement
- Named to the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (2016)
- Recipient of the State Bar of Georgia's "Distinguished Service Award" (2015)
- Recipient of the Daily Report's First "Lifetime Achievement Award" (2015)
- Recipient of the Susan E. Rich Women's Initiative Award (2015)
- Recognized as one of Atlanta's "Top 20 Women in Business" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle (2014)
- Named a "Champion for Justice" by the Georgia Legal Services Program (2013)
- Recipient of the State Bar of Georgia's Chief Justice Thomas O. Marshall Professionalism Award (2010 – 2011)
- Recipient of the inaugural "Fastcase 50" award (2011)
- Fellows of the American Bar Association Outstanding State Chair Award (2010)
- YWCA Women of Achievement Award (saluting women who embody the YWCA's mission of empowering women and eliminating racism), (2009)
- State Bar of Georgia Randolph W. Thrower Commitment to Equality Award (2009)
- Listed since 2009 in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers in the area of Construction and Commercial Litigation
- Listed in Georgia Super Lawyers since 2004; listed among the top 100 attorneys in Georgia; listed among the top 50 female attorneys in Georgia
- Named to Lawdragon 3000 (2010)
- Named by Georgia Trend magazine in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014 as one of Georgia's Legal Elite
- Recipient of the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award (2004)
- First recipient of Atlanta Bar Association's Outstanding Woman in the Profession Achievement Award (2001)
- Atlanta magazine's Woman Making a Mark (2001)
- Sol H. Clark Pro Bono Award (1999)
- Georgia Association for Women Lawyers Woman Lawyer of Achievement Award (1999)
- Partnership Against Domestic Violence Award (1998)
- Georgia Minority/Elected and Appointed Officials Naomi Henson Humanitarian Award (1998)
- ABA/TIPS Pro Bono Honor Roll (2005)
Atlanta, Georgia 30326