Kim E. Miller is a partner of Kahn Gauthier Swick, LLC, who specializes in securities, consumer, and commercial litigation. Prior to joining KGS in 2006, Ms. Miller was a partner at one of the nation's leading plaintiff class action firms. Ms. Miller also spent two years as a securities litigator on the defense side while at Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich LLP in Palo Alto, California.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Miller has represented tens of thousands of wronged investors and consumers in class actions filed throughout the country. Among other cases, Ms. Miller has worked on more than 25 cases involving allegations of improper directed brokerage arrangements and excessive charges in mutual fund cases brought pursuant to the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and/or the Investment Company Act of 1940. Ms. Miller was also involved in the mutual funds late trading/market timing litigation.

Ms. Miller has been involved in a variety of cases in which large settlements were reached, including:

Spahn v. Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P., 04-cv-00086-HEA (E.D. Mo.) (Settlement value of $127.5 million)

In re StarLink Corn Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1403 (N.D. Ill.) ($110 Million Recovery.)

In re American Express Financial Advisors, Inc. Sec. Litig., 1:04-cv-01773-DAB (S.D.N.Y.) ($100 Million Recovery.)

Ms. Miller was also a member of the trial team that obtained a federal jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in a case involving the aiding and abetting of a mortgage company's fraudulent lending practices. Austin v. Lehman Commercial Paper, Inc., SA, CV 01-111 (DOC)(C.D. Cal.).

Ms. Miller graduated with honors from Stanford University in 1992 with a double major in English and Psychology. She earned her J.D. degree from Cornell Law School, cum laude, in 1995. While at Cornell, Ms. Miller was the Co-Chair of the Women's Law Symposium, Bench Brief Editor of the Moot Court Board, and a member of the Board of Editors of the Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy. She is admitted to practice in the States of California and New York and before the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Northern, Southern, and Central Districts of California. Her pro bono work includes representing families of 9/11 victims at In re September 11 Victim Compensation Fund hearings. Ms. Miller has also served as a fundraiser for the New York Legal Aid Society.

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