Ed Dudensing Wins Mentorship Award at 2025 California Legal Awards
June 30, 2025
Originally published by dudensinglaw.com
The Recorder and Law.com announced that Ed Dudensing, founder of Dudensing Law, won the Mentorship Award at the 2025 California Legal Awards. This recognition celebrates Ed’s exceptional dedication to mentoring the next generation of legal professionals and his unwavering commitment to advancing justice for victims of elder abuse and neglect in California.
The Mentorship Award specifically honors California attorneys whose dedication to mentoring has created a lasting impact on emerging legal professionals.
Through his mentorship of local high school students, Ed has opened doors to the legal profession while building essential professional skills in young people. As an Adjunct Professor of Law at UC San Francisco’s Law School, Ed draws from decades of courtroom experience to educate tomorrow’s legal advocates. His partnership with California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) demonstrates his dedication to systemic reform, working alongside the state’s premier nursing home advocacy organization to safeguard California’s most vulnerable residents. Finally, Ed is the sole author of The Rutter Group’s Elder Abuse Litigation book in the Civil Litigation Series, published in April 2025. The Rutter Group provides authoritative and practical guidance for California and federal legal professionals.
This recognition underscores how effective mentorship in elder abuse advocacy can multiply impact, ensuring California’s elders will have dedicated legal champions for generations to come.
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