Linda Klein

Linda Klein is an American lawyer, past president of the American Bar Association, and senior managing shareholder at the Baker Donelson law firm. Education and academia Klein received her bachelor's degree, cum laude, from Union College in 1980, and a J.D. from Washington & Lee University in 1983. Klein has served on the boards of directors for multiple organizations, and is currently a member of the executive committee of the Buckhead Coalition, and is a board member of the Georgia Bar Foundation and OnBoard. Other previous roles include serving as president of the Board of Directors' Network, the Caucus of State Bars, Southface Energy Institute, and as chair of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education in Georgia and the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia. She currently serves on the advisory boards of Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers. Klein is also an advisory board member of the Cuba Consortium, an assembly of companies, non¬profit organizations, investors, academics, and entrepreneurs organized by The Howard Baker Forum, to track and examine the normalization process in the US and Cuba. She is a member of the American Law Institute, and serves as a mediator and arbitrator. Klein has lectured in France, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Great Britain, Poland, Croatia, Canada and throughout the United States, and is the author of numerous published works.