Ashley Espeland Klein

Ashley E. Klein’s practice focuses on real estate litigation, including landlord-tenant matters, property management, purchase and sale and co-ownership disputes. She has experience in Alternative Dispute Resolutions, including mandatory settlement conferences and private mediations.  Ms. Klein has served as a second chair in a lengthy bench trial involving architectural malpractice and unlicensed contractor activities.

Ms. Klein has represented clients in matters involving residential and commercial breach of contract, quiet title actions, unlawful detainer, fraud and misrepresentation, professional negligence, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, and the San Francisco Residential Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Ordinance.  Ms. Klein has developed an extensive knowledge of service animals, emotional support animals (comfort animals), and therapy animals in both residential and commercial settings.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law, Ms. Klein has been recognized for her oral advocacy and writing skills.  During law school, she was awarded the Gressman-Pollitt Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy and her article describing the prospect of class arbitration in Canada was published in the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. While in law school, Ms. Klein spent a summer working in the legal counsel’s office of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  Ms. Klein is proficient in Spanish and has traveled extensively in Latin America and Spain.