About the Authors and Contributors

• Author: William M. Audet/Kimberly A. Fanady
• Pages: 9-9

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Handling Federal discovery

About the Authors and Contributors

William M. Audet, J.D., LL.M., is the founding partner of the nationally known law firm of Audet &

Partners, LLP. Mr. Audet has prosecuted class action and individual cases involving securities, product liability, fraud,

consumer and limited partnership claims. He has won multi-million-dollar settlements on behalf of plaintiffs and has

successfully tried civil rights cases in federal court.

Mr. Audet graduated with the highest honors from Golden Gate University School of Law, where he was

awarded two academic scholarships and received the American Jurisprudence Award in constitutional law and

contracts. Mr. Audet earned an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin School of Law, where he was a Clinical

Instructor and Staff Attorney at the Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons Program. Mr. Audet served as a

staff attorney at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as a law clerk to the Honorable Fern M. Smith, Judge of the

United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Alfonso J.

Zirpoli, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Mr. Audet is a member of the California and Wisconsin bars and is admitted to practice before numerous fed-

eral district courts throughout the United States and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The author of two law review

articles, Mr. Audet is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco bay area legal press. He can be reached at Audet &

Partners, LLP., 221 Main Street, Suite 1460, San Francisco, California 94105, telephone: (415) 982-1776, fax: (415)

568-2556, e-mail: waudet@audetlaw.com, website: http://www.audetlaw.com.

Kimberly A. Fanady is a sole practitioner in San Francisco. Her commercial litigation practice includes

representing major financial institutions and other corporate clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts in the

areas of contract and commercial disputes, lender liability, creditors’ remedies, consumer class actions involving unfair

business practices, consumer credit reporting, automobile sales and financing, securities fraud, employment discrimina-

tion, wrongful termination, construction law, and workout/settlement negotiation and documentation.

Prior to opening her solo practice in May 1996, Ms. Fanady practiced with Buchalter, Nemer, Fields &

Younger in San Francisco from 1989 to 1996 and with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft in New York City from 1986

to 1989. She is a member of the California bar, a former member of the New York bar and a member of various federal

courts in California and New York.

Ms. Fanady received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she served as Executive

Editor of the Moot Court Board. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in English.

She can be reached at the Law Offices of Kimberly A. Fanady, 55 New Montgomery St., Suite 618 San Francisco,

California 94105, (415) 986-8467.