Beth Klein began her legal career in 1987 at a notable boutique trial firm. From the beginning, she was drawn to the courtroom — not as a stage, but as the arena where wrongs could actually be righted. She proved her skills quickly, taking on complex, high-risk cases and earning a reputation for precision, preparation, and the rare ability to connect with juries on the deepest human level.

Beth became the first woman to serve as a national trial attorney for Owens Corning in the massive asbestos litigation — one of the most complex, high-stakes litigation environments in American legal history. From 1993 to 1999, she tried cases across the United States against some of the most skilled trial lawyers in the country in high-risk, high-verdict matters.

She served as High Risk Counsel — responsible for cases with the greatest verdict potential — and trained other trial lawyers on Owens Corning’s national team. She was responsible for high-level corporate witness preparation, strategy, and trial counsel in legal test cases. Few attorneys anywhere, at any career stage, accumulate this kind of concentrated trial experience. For Beth, it was her foundation.

In 1993 Beth founded Beth Klein, P.C. — a practice built not around volume or efficiency, but around the clients she could most meaningfully serve. From the beginning, she accepted only the cases she believed in and fought for them as if they were her own.

Early results established her reputation in Colorado courts. She resolved a statewide class action against American Cemwood for defective roofing materials that affected thousands of Colorado homeowners. She brought the only successful automobile coverage PIP enhanced benefits class action against American Family Insurance in District Court in Boulder — resulting in 27,000 automobile policies being ordered to provide enhanced coverages retroactively, benefiting thousands of Coloradans.

She and her team challenged a low-ball class action settlement and doubled the original compensation to injured class members producing a settlement of $1.25 Billion. She won the largest PIP bad faith verdict in Colorado history at $2.1 Million.

Beginning in 1979, Beth Klein represented exploited and victimized people in civil court — using litigation as a tool for justice when the criminal system fell short or was inaccessible. Beth was tackling the injustices of human trafficking in civil court long before it was recognized as a legal specialty.

She went on to write and pass anti-human trafficking legislation for Colorado, Texas, and Mississippi — and has worked with governments and international agencies worldwide to develop policy, create civil remedies, and build frameworks that protect trafficking victims and hold perpetrators accountable. She has done this work entirely for free.

Beth Klein, P.C. is the only law firm in the United States fully dedicated to making law and creating civil remedies for human trafficking victims on a global scale. Her results in individual cases reflect the depth of this commitment — including a $7 million verdict for a trafficking victim from Nepal and over $4 million for a torture survivor.

In January 2024, Beth traveled to Uganda with Heal & Thrive to open a literacy center outside of Soroti — supporting 120 widows and single mothers with foundational education in reading, writing, and basic mathematics. Literacy, she believes, is one of the most powerful weapons against slavery.

In what would become one of the most celebrated cases of her career, Beth Klein took on the case Dawson v. Fluor — representing an individual seriously injured by a military contractor operating in Baghdad, Iraq during the surge. The obstacles were nearly insurmountable: witnesses located in an active war zone, testimony requiring negotiation with the emerging Iraqi government, and immigration and homeland security hurdles to secure that testimony in a U.S. court.

She overcame every one of them. The trial resulted in a $19 million verdict — and was named Case of the Year by the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association and entered in the Texas Verdict Hall of Fame. It is a testament to what is possible when an attorney with sufficient skill, preparation, and determination refuses to accept that a case cannot be won.

After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Beth also worked with the U.S. Military, the State Department, and hundreds of families who had adopted a child in Haiti — spearheading a national effort to bring children to waiting parents in the United States during one of the most chaotic humanitarian crises in the Western Hemisphere.

Today Beth Klein practices from her office in Basalt, Colorado — in the heart of the Roaring Fork Valley she has called home. She accepts personal injury, wrongful death, products liability, and legal malpractice cases, serving clients throughout the Roaring Fork Valley and accepting serious cases statewide and nationally.

She deliberately limits her caseload to a small number of clients at any given time. This is not a constraint — it is a commitment. Every client who hires Beth Klein gets Beth Klein: her direct attention, her nearly four decades of trial experience, and her absolute dedication to the best possible outcome.

She continues her legislative and advocacy work in human trafficking, her international collaborations, and her belief that the law — practiced with courage and skill — is one of the most powerful forces for good that exists in the world.