Asher A. Klein
Practice Areas
- Commercial Transactions
- Contracts
- Corporate Formation
- Directors and Officers Liability
- Partnership Disputes
- Appellate
- Fiduciary and Trustee Liability
- Class Action
- Commercial Litigation
- Additional Insured
- Construction Contracts
- Construction Defect
- Indemnity
- Job Site Injuries
- Administrative & Licensing Defense
- Legal Malpractice
- Property Managers
- Real Estate Agents & Brokers
- Brain Injury Litigation
- Catastrophic Injuries
- Commercial Premises Liability
- Complex General Liability
- Dram Shop & Social Host Liability
- Restaurant & Hospitality
- Retail
- Wrongful Death
- Bad Faith Litigation
- Discrimination
- Employment Manuals & Agreements
- Harassment
- Wage & Hour
- Habitability
- Landlord Tenant
- Property Management
- Real Estate Transactions
- Automotive Liability
- Trucking
Biography
Asher A. Klein is a Partner in the New York/New Jersey office of Zelms Erlich Lenkov.
Asher’s practice focuses on insurance defense, financial services litigation, commercial litigation, general liability, construction, errors and omissions, labor and employment, real estate, transportation, and business-related matters. He handles matters involving premises liability, construction liability, automobile liability, commercial premises liability, catastrophic injury, brain injury litigation, wrongful death, dram shop and social host liability, restaurant and hospitality, retail, automotive liability, trucking, bad faith litigation, professional liability, fiduciary and trustee liability, class action litigation, and commercial disputes.
Asher also advises clients on compliance and regulatory matters, evaluates litigation risk, and works with clients to develop strategies for case resolution.
Prior to joining Zelms Erlich Lenkov, Asher managed a large caseload of insurance defense matters, as well as financial services and commercial litigation matters on behalf of lenders and financial institutions in state and federal courts. His experience includes prosecuting commercial and residential foreclosure actions, providing compliance guidance to lenders of secured and unsecured loans, advising financial institutions on risk in secured and unsecured syndicated loans, and litigating matters involving bankruptcy, default, and restructuring.
Asher also has experience supervising attorneys in employment matters, including wage and hour disputes, class action litigation involving Fair Labor Standards Act and New York Labor Law claims, discrimination, and retaliation. He has served as chief counsel in AAA and JAMS employment arbitration matters.
Asher previously served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Mitchel E. Ostrer, J.A.D. (ret.), in Mercer County, New Jersey.
Asher earned his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
Asher is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey.
Bar Admissions
- New York, 2009
- New Jersey, 2009
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of New York
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey
Education
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
- Brooklyn College, City University of New York, B.A.
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