News Briefs
Klein Nominated to Second Term as Essex County Bar Association Trustee
February 14, 2022
The Honorable Harriet Farber Klein, who retired after 15 years on the bench of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County and an additional two years on recall, is an arbitrator and mediator. She is a Rule 1:40 qualified mediator on the roster of court-approved civil mediators, and is on the AAA rosters for complex commercial cases and emergent matters. Harriet serves as a valued resource to her Wilson Elser colleagues, providing them with judicial insight that assists them in managing and winning cases.
While on the bench, Harriet was a faculty member for the training of new judges and law clerks assigned to the General Equity Part. Prior to her judgeship, she was in private practice as a commercial and employment litigator with two New Jersey–based firms for a combined total of 25 years. At all times during her legal career, Harriet has been a frequent speaker at bar association programs on the state and local levels as well as a panelist at continuing legal education seminars for lawyers and judges. She served a one-year clerkship for the Hon. Irwin I. Kimmelman in the Chancery Division, General Equity Part immediately following law school.
- Rutgers School of Law (J.D.)
- Rutgers Moot Court Board; member, The Order of Barristers
- Rutgers University Douglass College (B.A.)
- General Honors and Honors in Political Science; Pi Sigma Alpha
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- New Jersey State Bar Association Section on Women in the Profession, Trustee
- New Jersey State Bar Association Judicial Administration Committee, Co-Chair
- New Jersey State Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution
- New Jersey State Bar Association Section on Business & Commercial Litigation
- Essex County Bar Association, Trustee
- New Jersey Women’s Lawyers Association, Trustee
- Rutgers Law School – Newark Alumni Association, Trustee
- Garibaldi Inn of Court for Dispute Resolution