About the Authors and Contributors

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

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

WILLIA M M. AUD ET, J.D., LL.M., (h.c.), is the founding partner of Audet & Partners, LLP, plaintiffs-only law

firm recognized for its aggressive and creative prosecution of hundreds of individual, small business, class action

and complex litigation cases involving fraud, defective drugs and products, privacy and constitutional rights,

environmental, employment, unfair business practices, shareholders’ rights and antitrust claims. He has won multi-

million-dollar settlements on behalf of plaintiffs and has successfully tried civil rights cases in federal court.

Mr. Audet earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) (with highest honors) from Golden Gate University School of Law in

1984, where he was the Editor of the Golden Gate University Law Review and the student commencement speaker.

In 1987, Mr. Audet obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the University of Wisconsin School of Law.

During his years at the University of Wisconsin, he taught as a clinical professor, and worked full time at the law

school’s LAIP inmate legal services program as a supervising attorney to law students at the clinic. Mr. Audet also

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. In 2013, Mr.

Audet was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law (LL.D., h.c.) degree from the Golden Gate University School of Law

in recognition of his significant contributions to the legal community and the law school itself.

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

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., 711 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 500, San Francisco, California 94102, telephone: (415) 982-1776, fax:

(415) 568-2556, e-mail: waudet@audetlaw.com, website: http://www.audetlaw.com.

KIMBER LY A. FANADY. Her civil litigation practice includes representing corporate and individual clients in

federal and state trial and appellate courts in the areas of contract and commercial disputes, creditors’ remedies,

fraud, employment discrimination, wrongful termination, construction law, probate and trust litigation, 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.

“DAVID” LING Y. KUANG (Contributor) is an associate attorney at Audet & Partners, LLP, where his practice

focuses on the prosecution of products-liability class actions and other complex litigation cases. Mr. Kuang is active

in both California state courts and federal district courts throughout the United States.

Prior to starting at Audet & Partners, LLP, Mr. Kuang gained a wide breadth of judicial experience working with

Associate Justice Nathan D. Mihara in the California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District and with Presiding

Judge Thang N. Barrett in the Superior Court of California, Santa Clara County. Mr. Kuang’s judicial experience has

been further expanded on the international stage, having clerked for the Honorable Sharon D. Melloy in the Hong

Kong District Courts.

Mr. Kuang received his J.D. from Golden Gate University, School of Law where he was an annual Faculty

Scholarship Recipient, member of the Pro Bono Honor Society and president of APALSA, the school’s largest

minority focused student bar association. Mr. Kuang also had the privilege to intern at Pacific Gas & Elecitric, Co’s

(PG&E’s) in-house law department while he was in school. He can be reached at 711 Van Ness Ave., Ste. 500 San

Francisco, CA 94102 or via email: LKuang@audetlaw.com, website: www.audetlaw.com.