ADAM T. KLEIN is a partner of Outten & Golden LLP and is the chair of the firm's class action practice group. His practice is limited to the prosecution of class action and impact litigation of employment discrimination and wage and hour claims.

Mr. Klein presently serves as lead or co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in wage and hour class/collective actions against numerous major corporations, including Wal-Mart, IBM, Washington Mutual, Verizon, UPS, A&P, HSBC, JP Morgan Chase, and GEICO. In EEO litigation, Mr. Klein serves as co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in nationwide, discrimination class action lawsuits against Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Klein also serves as co-lead plaintiffs' class counsel in a now settled "glass ceiling" gender discrimination class action against MetLife, based on discrimination in promotions and compensation.

Mr. Klein was recently selected by his peers in Best Lawyers in America and New York’s Super Lawyers – Manhattan Edition 2007.* Mr. Klein is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), served on the Executive Board of its New York Affiliate (NELA/NY) from 2000 to 2006, and is the former co-chair of the Class Action Committee of NELA. He served on the Executive Board of the Employee Rights Section of the American Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Klein is a member of the American Bar Association, where he served as the Plaintiffs' Co-Chair of the Committee on Technology and Federal Law Clerks Training Program, and is a member of the Committees on Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Rights and Responsibilities of the Section of Labor and Employment Law and the Class Action and Derivative Suits Committee of the Section of Litigation. Mr. Klein is the plaintiffs’ co-chair of the largest Committee within the Labor and Employment Section – the Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. Mr. Klein is a Trustee of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and is also a member of the Federal Bar Council, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Advisory Board of the Labor and Employment Law Program and Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Wage and Hour Clearinghouse.

Mr. Klein received his undergraduate degree from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1987 and his law degree from Hofstra University in 1990. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1991.

Mr. Klein is admitted in New York and in the federal Second, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits and the Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York.

*Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome

• Credit Discrimination Lawsuit
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• Census Discrimination
  
  
• The DOL's New FLSA White Collar Exemption Regulations and Working with the DOL on FLSA Actions
  Adam T. Klein, Mark R. Humowiecki, Tarik F. Ajami, and Cara E. Greene
  Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, Vol 10, No. 2, Winter 2006.
  
  
• Contingent Worker Abuses: The Class Action Remedy
  Adam T. Klein and Scott Moss, Employee Rights Quarterly, Winter 2000.
  
  
• Best Practices in Complex Employment Litigation: Contacting Employees
  by Adam T. Klein, Tarik F. Ajami and Mark R. Humowiecki
  
  
• Complex Wage Litigation - Use of Statistical Evidence
  by Adam T. Klein and Tarik F. Ajami
  
  
• Eight-Minute Electronic Discovery
  by Adam T. Klein, Esq., Tarik F. Ajami, Esq., Douglas C. James, Esq. and Rachel Wilhelm
  
  
• The Fair Labor Standards Act - Settlements 101
  by Adam T. Klein, Mark R. Humowiecki and Tarik F. Ajami Outten & Golden LLP
  
  
• Use of ADR Procedures to Resolve Complex Employment Discrimination Litigation From a Plaintiffs' Perspective: No Thanks.
  by Adam T. Klein, Tarik F. Ajami and Mark R. Humowiecki Outten & Golden LLP
  
  
• When Outsourcing Cheats Workers
  by Adam T. Klein, Esq. and Mark R. Humowiecki, Esq.
  
  
• Employer Credit-History Checks and Criminal Record Checks of Job Applicants for Hiring Decisions: The Illegality under Title VII Disparate Impact Doctrine
  by Adam T. Klein, ReNika Moore, Scott A. Moss
  
  
• Off-The-Clock Claims From The Employee’s Perspective
  by Adam T. Klein, Sean Farhang

• Feb 10- Practicing Law Institute - Managing Wage & Hour Risks- NYC

• Jun 5- As the World Turns: Perspectives on International Labor and Employment Law - Cross-Border Class Action Litigation- New York, NY
  
  
• May 19-20- American Conference Institute's 7th National Advanced Forum on Wage Hour Claims and Class Actions - Making the Call Whether to Settle: Assessing Damages, Settlement Structure, Administration and More-New York, NY
  
  
• Apr 8- The American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education - Criminal History, Bad Credit Scores, and Hiring Discrimination: Title VII and the Use of Criminal Records and Credit History as Hiring Criteria- Teleconference
  
  
• Mar 19-20- Center for Labor and Employment Law: Twelfth Annual NYU Workshop on Employment Law for Federal Judges - Evidence Issues/Use of Experts- New York, NY
  
  
• Mar 12- The 13th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute - Reacting to the Changing American Workforce and Workplace, Part I: Lifestyle Behaviors & Relationships- Washington, DC
  
  
• Jan 5- Nat'l CLE Conference - Labor & Employment - Class and Collective Actions Update- Vail, CO

• Oct 19- NELA Fall Conference - Representing Workers In Individual & Collective Actions Under the FLSA- Advanced Issues in Collective Actions- New Orleans, LA
  
  
• Aug 11-14- ABA Annual Convention- Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (Co-Chair)- San Francisco, CA
  
  
• Jun 28- NELA Annual Conference- Litigating Racial Discrimination and Harassment Claims- San Juan, P.R.
  
  
• May 16- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission- EEOC Spotlights Employment Testing and Screening in the 21st Century Workplace- Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Apr 26- New York University School of Law / American Bar Association- Mock E-Discovery Hearing- NYC
  
  
• Apr 24- American Conference Institute- 4th National Forum on Wage & Hour Claims & Class Actions (Co-Chair)- NYC
  
  
• Apr 19-20- Cornell University's Labor and Employment Law Program- Wage and Hour Law and Litigation Strategies- NYC
  
  
• Mar 28- American Conference Institute- Corporate Counsel Forum on Wage & Hour Compliance: What Plaintiffs’ Counsel Look for in Wage and Hour Conduct: Industries and Practices in Their Sights- Las Vegas, NV
  
  
• Mar 21-25- American Bar Association- National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Co-Chair)- Charleston, SC
  
  
• Mar 7- Human Resources Executive Conferences- 1st Annual HR in Hospitality Conference: Fair Labor Standards Act: Wage and Hour Compliance and the Consequences of Non-Compliance- Las Vegas, NV
  
  
• Mar 5- Human Resources Executive Conferences- 1st Annual HR in Hospitality Conference: The Law of the Workplace: Hot Employment Issues for the Hospitality Industry- Las Vegas, NV
  
  
• Jan 8- Law Education Institute, National CLE Conference on Labor & Employment Law- All for One and One for All: Class and Collective Actions – Leading Edge Logistical and Legal Issues- Snowmass Village, CO 2006
  
  
• Oct 13- Practicing Law Institute- 35Th Annual Institute on Employment Law- NYC
  
  
• Aug 8- ABA Annual Convention- FLSA Update- Honolulu, HI
  
  
• Aug 5-8- ABA Annual Convention- Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (Co-Chair)- Honolulu, HI
  
  
• Apr 20- American Inns of Court- Glass Ceiling Litigation- NYC
  
  
• Apr 7- Georgetown University Law Center, Employment Law & Litigation Institute 2006- E-Discovery- Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Mar 16- New York University School of Law / Federal Judicial Center, Workshop for Federal Judges- Wage & Hour Litigation- NYC
  
  
• Feb 10- Georgetown University Law Center, Evidence Issues and Jury Instructions in Employment Cases- Evidence Issues in Collective and Class Actions- Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Jan 5- Law Education Institute, National CLE Conference on Labor & Employment Law- All for One and One for All: Class and Collective Actions – Leading Edge Logistical and Legal Issues- Snowmass Village, CO 2005
  
  
• Nov 10- NYU Law School – Institute of Judicial Administration- State Class Action & Arbitration Law- NYC
  
  
• Nov 1- Second Circuit Staff Attorney Training Seminar- Summary Judgment in Employment Discrimination Cases- NYC
  
  
• Oct 15- NELA Fall Conference- Impact Litigation: Representing Workers In Class, Collective & Multiple Plaintiff Actions Mediation & Settlement Strategies- Boston, MA
  
  
• Oct 14- NELA Fall Conference- Impact Litigation: Representing Workers In Class, Collective & Multiple Plaintiff Actions The New White Collar Regulations- Boston, MA
  
  
• Aug 9- ABA Annual Convention- Ethical Hot Spots for Lawyers in the Electronic Age- Chicago, IL
  
  
• Jun 9- New York County Lawyers’ Association and NELA/NY- Emerging Issues in Employment Discrimination Law: Electronic Discovery- NYC
  
  
• May 5- NELA/NY Spring Conference- High Profile Wage and Hour Litigation- NYC
  
  
• Apr 22- Georgetown University Law Center, Employment Law & Litigation Institute: Legal Trends and Practice Strategies- Wage & Hour Class Actions- Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Apr 7- ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee- 2005 Midwinter Meeting Disparate Impact: The Most Recent Word on This Long-Standing Discrimination Theory, Including the New Ways of Proving Disparate Impact and Whether It Is Available in All Discrimination Areas, Including Age Discrimination- Naples, FL
  
  
• Mar 17- New York University School of Law / Federal Judicial Center, Workshop for Federal Judges- Wage & Hour Litigation- NYC
  
  
• Jan 6- Snowmass National CLE Conference- Employment Law Collective Actions - Leading Edge Logistical and Legal Issues- Aspen, CO