Mr. Klung’s community leadership experience includes serving as Executive Director of the Winchester-Frederick County Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau.  During his term, he promoted tourism opportunities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and guided the Bureau through an unprecedented private-to-public sector transition by implementing a comprehensive restructuring plan for the Bureau.  Mr. Klung executed the plan in a manner that successfully resolved long-standing personnel, budgetary and infrastructure challenges; avoided threats of litigation and public acrimony against local politicians, municipal authorities and Tourism Board members; and preserved the confidentiality of internal personnel matters and decision-making processes.

Prior to becoming an associate with the Session Law Firm, Mr. Klung served Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering where he was assigned to the Securities Law Division team.  As a member of the Securities Law Division team, he assisted in the defense of a Wall Street securities brokerage firm during a complex class action case. Mr. Klung fulfilled extensive discovery requests, both in Washington and at the client’s offices in New York, and worked with lead counsel to manage the document review process.

In 1997 Mr. Klung was appointed law clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on the Constitution.  While on Capitol Hill, he effectively managed legislative and public policy research projects, drafted opinion memoranda and interfaced with the public, Federal regulatory agencies and congressional staff and Members.   Mr. Klung was also responsible for analyzing pending bills in the House of Representatives and reporting the bills' constitutional and public policy implications to staff counsel.

Winning advocacy battles in the public arena through effective prose and public relations strategies, Mr. Klung’s successful pre-law school career in media and marketing spanned eight years and included production of public relations, informational and promotional projects for the White House; Gannett/USA Today; NASA; Discovery Channel; National Geographic Society; Sara Lee Corporation; Amgen; Chemical Manufacturers Association; WUSA Television (Washington, DC) and various local and state nonprofit/educational organizations.  Also among his accomplishments were his involvement in the creation of national and state political advertising campaigns and regional broadcast commercials.

Mr. Klung earned a J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America, and is a member of the Virginia State Bar. His professional affiliations have included the U.S. Conference of Mayors; the Airports Council International; the American Bar Association; the Federal Communications Bar Association; the American Intellectual Property Law Association; and the Business, Intellectual Property, Real Estate and Local Government Law Sections of the Virginia State Bar.