Wrestlers are a breed apart. They enjoy the struggle and hard work it takes to excel in the sport and appreciate the work ethic and mental toughness the sport instills. Mr. Kling has been a wrestler since he was five years old. He wrestled through college, where he walked onto Lehigh University’s Historic Wrestling Varsity Wrestling Team. Mr. Kling earned a starting position on that team in 2003, a year in which the team finished the season 4th in the nation behind Oklahoma State, Minnesota and Oklahoma. After college, Mr. Kling spent some time competing in mixed martial arts and fighting professionally.
Since a very young age, Mr. Kling has also been extremely driven on the academic front and was reasonably certain that he would ultimately wind-up practicing law. In the 1999 Morning Call article, “Brains and Brawn . . .” , an article about Mr. Kling and two other first team Academic All Americans, Mr. Kling was quoted as stating that he wanted to be a contract attorney. Now, among other things, he sues insurance companies for breach of their insurance contracts.
A born leader, Mr. Kling was the student body president, the football team captain, and the wrestling team captain at his high school. He also ran the trial division of Smith, Kling, and Thompson, P.A. and his own firm, Kling Law, P.A. before joining Carpenter and Czelusta in his of counsel role. While in high school, Mr. Kling attended classes at Lehigh University. He also completed a number of honors courses, which allowed him to graduate from Lehigh University in just three years with a Bachelor of Arts in German (2003). He stayed another year to obtain a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance (2004).
Mr. Kling graduated with Honors from the Stetson University College of Law in 2009, where he was an assistant editor of the Stetson Law Review, a member of the honors symposium, and the Parliamentary for the Student Bar Association.
Mr. Kling has been practicing in the area of property insurance litigation since 2010. He has litigated thousands of First Party Property Insurance cases. Always up for a good fight, Mr. Kling has tried over twenty sinkhole cases to verdict, and he is often retained by other property insurance attorneys to try their property insurance related trials. He is widely regarded as an expert in sinkhole related case by other attorneys in his field. In addition to his work as a trial attorney, Mr. Kling has argued numerous appeals and has several published appellate court opinions to his name.
Mr. Kling has received an AV rating from his peers and a Platinum rating from his clients on the rating service Martindale Hubbell, which are the highest ratings obtainable on that site. He has handled cases as small as a few thousand-dollar kitchen leak to as large as multimillion-dollar condominium complex losses. In addition to property insurance cases, Mr. Kling has handled personal injury matters, medical malpractice matters, and construction related matters.
