Bio
For the last seventeen years, Ed Dudensing has owned and operated his own law firm representing exclusively victims of elder neglect and abuse in health care facilities. Mr. Dudensing has successfully prosecuted scores of elder abuse cases and acted as lead trial counsel on the two largest elder abuse verdicts in the history of Sacramento County. Mr. Dudensing has recovered in excess of $100 million on behalf of victims of elder abuse.
Mr. Dudensing received his undergraduate degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Thereafter, Mr. Dudensing graduated the equivalent of magna cum laude from the University of California Davis Law School in 1994 where he earned several honors including the Order of Coif for academic excellence and the Order of the Barrister for excellence in oral advocacy. He also served as the Executive Editor to the UC Davis Law Review, and spent several years as the head of Trial Advocacy for UC Davis Law’s mock trial teams.
Mr. Dudensing’s law career began with a two year term as an attorney to the Honorable Robert C. Broomfield, the Chief Judge of the Federal District Court in Arizona, where he assisted the Court in drafting legal opinions on all civil matters before it. Mr. Dudensing then joined the international law firm of Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, where he served as an associate in the business litigation department for three years. While at Orrick, Mr. Dudensing worked on a variety of high profile litigation matters.
In 1999, Ed Dudensing joined the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. During his four years as a Deputy District Attorney, he successfully prosecuted cases involving charges of murder, attempted murder, rape, and child molestation, among many others. Ed left the District Attorney’s office in 2003 to start his own law firm representing victims of elder abuse.
Ed currently is a member of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, the Nursing Home Litigation Group of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the National Crime Victim Bar Association. Ed has been a featured speaker numerous times over the years on elder abuse, nursing home reform and other topics relating to his field of specialty.