Alan J. Kluger

   “I represent business men and women.  By urging them to tell me their goals and desires, I can use my thirty-years of experience to design a strategy and game plan.  The marriage of a litigation strategy and business common sense allows me to successfully and efficiently work my clients’ plan. They come to me because I can achieve the results they reasonably expect, and they know I take their problems personally and care about them."

 --Alan J. Kluger, Litigation and Dispute Resolution

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Alan is principally engaged as a trial lawyer for public and private companies such as financial institutions, real estate holding corporations, and portfolio companies of national private equity groups. He also represents individuals in matrimonial and family legal issues including will contests and international disputes. Sports and entertainment personalities retain Alan to handle contract negotiations, disputes, and other highly confidential proceedings.

    “I love the practice of trial work.  By an honest and early assessment, I can often save my clients unnecessary expense and heartache.  That’s the personal reward of my chosen profession of trial lawyer.”

Alan is continually recognized for his thorough approach to solving legal challenges. For example in professional liability prosecutions he has been instrumental in achieving several seven and eight figure settlements or verdicts, and in matters related to the United States Government's savings and loan asset recovery program he was engaged to recover hundreds of millions of dollars for the Trustees in the largest bank failure in the world, BCCI, and South Florida's then-largest bank failure, CenTrust.  

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From Alan’s Case Files

Putting Together a Winning Team:  "When a nationally known and highly respected private equity group came to our firm with a serious “bet the company” case, I put together a litigation team, a legal strategy, and a public relations team to get out front on a potentially damaging issue.  By creating the public storyline and a carefully planned litigation strategy, we were able to force the corporate sellers to settle early for a significant public victory.  This client now consults with me early and often.  Their business strategy now avoids such litigation from occurring.  That is what we do."

The Value of  Perspective:  A likely personal injury tort against a major automobile tire manufacturer became a successful major consumer class action following a creative analysis of the facts. Looking at the facts from the business perspective, I was able to identify the critical underlying cause. It became obvious to file the law suit under the Unfair & Deceptive Trade Practice Act. The defendant then settled with the class prior to trial.

The Power of Community:  Alan brings the same passion he takes to the court room into his community. Of particular note, in 1993, Alan and his wife, Judge Amy Dean, created a private foundation for the Dean-Kluger Judaic Collection. The Foundation's initial assets consisted of over seventy Jewish charity boxes dating as far back as 1679 that represent the charitable institutions of former Jewish communities around the world including Damascus, Syria, Baghdad, Iraq, Alexandria, Egypt, Calcutta, India, Salonika, and Morocco . The Collection is currently being liquidated and the proceeds used to meet the charitable goals of the Foundation.

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Education

• University of Miami School of Law, J.D., 1975
• Bryant College, B.S., magna cum laude, 1972

Bar Admissions & Memberships

• Florida, 1975
• District of Columbia, 1978
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1979
• U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern District of Florida, 1981, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 1975, Eleventh Circuit, 1981, Ninth Circuit, 1982, Second Circuit, 1985, Third Circuit, 1991, Tenth Circuit, 1996
• New York, 1996
• U.S. Tax Court, 1996

Noteworthy

• Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition, 2008
• "The Best Lawyers in America," Intellectual Property, 2008
• Chambers USA, Leading Lawyers, Florida Litigation, 2007-2008
• Law Dragon 500, Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America, 2007
• Super Lawyers, Florida Super Lawyers magazine, 2007
• Top Lawyers in South Florida, South Florida Legal Guide 2007
• Top Lawyers by Practice Area - Litigation (Commercial & Business), South Florida Legal Guide 2007
• "The Best Lawyers in America," Commercial Litigation, 2007
• "Legal Elite," Florida Trends magazine
• Top Lawyers, South Florida Legal Guide
• "Best of the Bar," South Florida Business Law Journal

Professional Affiliations

• The Florida Bar
• Dade County Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Community/Civic Involvement

• University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center, Founder
• American Israel Public Affairs Committee, National Executive Committee
• Dade County Mental Health Task Force on Child Abuse and Family Life Education, Chairman, Legislative Sub-Committee
• President, Florida Hillel Council, President, 1996-2001
• Miami-Dade County Community Relations Board
• Dean-Kluger Judaic Collection, Founder

Presentations & Publications

"Leases and Consignments," Secured Transactions in Florida, The Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education Series, 1981, Revised 1996
"Lender Liability" An Overview presented to FDIC in 1989, 1990 and 1991
"The Bells Have Tolled for Thee'"Class Actions in the Aftermath of Eisen and Zahn," 33 Barrister 13, 1974