Margaret G. Klein

Margaret G. Klein is the Attorney of Record for GNY's staff counsel. She joined GNY in 2006. She was born and educated in Ireland where she obtained a BA in Mathematics and Legal Science and an LLB postgraduate degree at The National University of Ireland before being admitted to the Irish Bar. She was admitted to the New York Bar in 1984, and began her legal career in New York as a litigation trial attorney, first with Fireman's Fund and later with Crum & Forster. In her last four years at Crum & Forster, she became Attorney of Record and then moved to GNY to lead and expand its legal department. She now supervises a staff of 18 attorneys who handle litigation throughout the five Boroughs of New York. Margaret served as President of The Defense Association of New York from 2015-2016 and is a member of The New York State Bar Association and The Defense Research Institute.