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FOURTH
ANNUAL ANIMAL LAW CLE PRESENTED BY THE ANIMAL
LAW SECTION OF THE LSBA
Animal
Law 2012 - Where Are We Now?
7
CLE CREDIT HOURS
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$155
for Animal Law Section Members (7 CLE Credit Hours)
$165 for Non-Section Members of the LSBA (7 CLE
Credit Hours)
$75 for
non-profit individuals and other individuals not
seeking CLE credits
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Register now for
another exciting and engaging Animal Law CLE!
The Animal Law Section's 4th Annual CLE which
will feature panels of top animal law attorneys
and scholars from around the country and Louisiana.
AGENDA:
8:00 to 8:30 am: Registration
HOUR 1
8:30-9:30
Animals as Property: A Study of Case Law
Marta Richards and Marie Erickson (Panel)
A comprehensive study of recent Louisiana cases,
other state case law and federal cases addressing
the valuation of animals. The panel will discuss
opportunities for attorneys to make analogies
using property law and other theories of recovery.
(1 Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 2
9:35 - 10:35
Randy Turner
Case Study
A discussion of recent litigation currently in
the Texas Supreme Court involving the "intrinsic
value" of animals and the decision's possible
effect on other state and federal litigation.
(1 Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 3
10:40 - 11:40
Elizabeth Choate and Christopher Green (Panel)
Non-economic damages in Veterinary Malpractice
Cases
A lively panel discussion addressing the pros
and cons of non-economic damages in veterinary
malpractice cases.
11:40 -12:40 Lunch - Provided in the Hotel
Lobby
HOUR 4
12:40 - 1:40
Paul Shapiro
Farm Legislation; An overview of current legislation
and litigation involving confined animal feeding
operations and farm animals. (1 Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 5
1:45 - 2:45
Ledy VanKavage
Breed Discrimination and Due Process- People love
their pets, no matter what their appearance. Learn
about the due process problems seen in many dangerous
dog laws, and learn about innovative reckless
owner laws that are on the rise. Lawsuits involving
pets and police will also be discussed.
5 minute break
HOUR 6
2:50 - 3:50
Adam Karp
Animals as Weapons & the Animal Law Solo Practitioner
When Push Comes to Shove: The Limits of Use of
Force Against Animals; When Bark Comes to Bite:
The Limits of Using Animals as Force. Mr. Karp
will also host an open forum to discuss his solo
law practice where he exclusively practices Animal
Law. Sample Motions and Pleadings will be reviewed.
(1 Hour)
HOUR 7
3:55- 4:55
Carney Anne Chester, Delcianna Winders, Frederick
Whitrock (Panel)
Exotic Animal Law
A discussion of the current laws and recent cases
involving exotic animals, zoos and the interplay
between the Federal Animal Welfare Act and local/state
laws, using a recent case as an example. Mr. Whitrock
will give an overview of the Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries' regulation over exotic
big cats, non-human primates, and constrictor
snakes.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:
Ledy VanKavage is the Senior Legislative
Attorney for Best Friends Animal Society and is
currently the Chair of the American Bar Association
TIPS Animal Law Committee. Ledy VanKavage began
her legal career as a judicial law clerk for the
Illinois Appellate Court and the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of Illinois. After
working at a St. Louis environmental law firm,
Green, Hennings, and Henry, she served as an attorney
advisor for the U.S. Health and Human Services.
Ledy has worked extensively in the humane movement.
In 1985 she organized the Madison County Coalition
Against Pound Seizure, successfully stopping the
sale of animals for research from her county animal
control facility. She then founded the Madison
County Humane Society and served as its president
for eight years. She worked for the ASPCA for
nine years in Illinois as Sr. Director of Legislation
and Legal Training. During that time she spearheaded
the passage of over 20 humane bills and during
her tenure Illinois became ranked as the best
state in the nation for animal cruelty laws by
the Animal Legal Defense Fund. She is Chair of
the American Bar Association's Tort Trial &
Insurance Practice Section's Animal Law Committee.
Ledy also serves on the Animal Farm Foundation
Board. She has been interviewed the New York Times,
MSNBC, NPR's Justice Talking, the Chicago Tribune,
and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Ledy graduated
from Eastern Illinois University with a BS in
Zoology and St. Louis University Law School. Ledy
resides in Collinsville, Illinois with her husband
Cliff Froehlich who is the Executive Director
of Cinema St. Louis. Ledy and her husband have
adopted three brindle pit bulls, Karma Korn, Che,
and Bella and also oversee a feral cat colony
in the neighborhood. (1 Hour) Topic: Breed
Specific Legislation
Delcianna Winders is Counsel for PETA,
Director, Captive Animal Law Enforcement, PETA
Foundation and an Adjunct Lecturer in Animal Law
at Tulane University Law School and Loyola University
New Orleans School of Law. Prior to joining the
PETA Foundation Ms. Winders was the Director of
Legal Campaigns for Farm Sanctuary. From 2007
to 2009, she worked as an associate at Meyer Glitzenstein
& Crystal (which Washingtonian Magazine named
the "most effective public-interest law firm
in Washington, D.C."), and before that served
as law clerk to the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey
(U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit).
Winders is a graduate of New York University School
of Law, where she was senior notes editor of the
NYU Law Review and recipient of the Vanderbilt
Medal for outstanding contributions to the Law
School. She has written articles about animal
law for several legal publications and presented
specialty talks at conferences and law schools
(including NYU, the University of Chicago, and
Yale). (Panel, 1 Hour) Topic: Captive and Exotic
Animals
Carney Anne Chester is Litigation Counsel
for Captive Animal Law Enforcement, a specialized
practice area within the PETA Foundation's legal
department that focuses on captive exotic animals,
particularly animals who are used for circuses
and other entertainment. Prior to joining the
PETA Foundation in September 2010, Ms. Chester
worked at Tulane Law School where, among other
responsibilities, she worked closely with Tulane's
Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. Prior to that,
she served as an assistant city attorney for the
City of Dallas and previously worked as an associate
in law firms in Texas and Massachusetts. She is
a graduate of the University of California, San
Diego and Tulane Law School; and holds an additional
graduate degree in community advocacy with a focus
on animal rights from the George Washington University.
She has served as co-chair of the Dallas Association
of Young Lawyers Animal Law Committee, on the
Board of Directors of the Humane Society of Louisiana,
has done a variety of animal rights-related pro
bono, and has co-taught the animal law seminar
course at Tulane Law School with her colleague,
Delcianna Winders. Ms. Chester's previous presentations
include discussions about the Louisiana cruelty
to animals statute and its application to trauma
training on live animals at Tulane Medical School
during the 2010 LSBA Animal Law Section CLE, regulation
of the New Orleans carriage industry for the 2010
Louisiana Animal Law Night and for a closed group
at the 2010 Taking Action for Animals Conference
in Washington, DC. (Panel, 1 Hour) Topic: A
discussion of the current laws and recent cases
involving exotic animals, zoos and the interplay
between the Federal Animal Welfare Act and local/state
laws, using a recent case as an example.
Adam Karp exclusively practices animal
law statewide from Bellingham, Washington at the
Animal Law Offices of Adam P. Karp, JD MS, Bellingham,
Washington, Animal Law Attorney; www.animal-lawyer.com. Having
graduated from Gonzaga University with a B.A.
Honors, and University of Washington with a J.D.
and M.S. in statistics, this is Mr. Karp's tenth
year actively practicing law. He founded and served
as first chair of the new Washington State Bar
Association's Animal Law Section for 2002-2003
and has held executive committee positions since
its formation. He was also a founding vice-chair
of the American Bar Association's Animal Law Committee
and has kept this position since 2004.
In addition to serving his sixth year as a contributing
editor of the Animal Legal Report, produced by
Animal Legal Reports Services, he is a long term
member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Further,
he was graduated from the Washington Level One
Animal Control Academy and is a member of the
Washington Animal Control Association and National
Animal Control Association. He regularly writes
for bar association bulletins on the topic of
animal law and routinely speaks around the nation
about animal law, including at Yale, Harvard,
Vanderbilt, and Vermont Law School. Adam is an
adjunct professor of animal law at the University
of Washington School of Law and Seattle University
School of Law. He has been quoted in TIME magazine,
the National Law Journal, the ABA Journal, and
other periodicals, including a dedicated article
on his practice in the Seattle Times. He has chaired
several animal law CLEs hosted by the WSBA, and
has been a speaker at more than 25 CLEs and conferences
around the nation all on the subject of animal
law. In 2008, Mr. Karp authored "Causes of
Action for Loss of or Injury to an Animal by an
Animal," 38 COA.2d 281 (2008). Three times
in a row, most recently surveying 2007-2008, he
has co-authored the ABA TIPS Animal Law Committee's
annual survey "Recent Developments in Animal
Tort and Insurance Law." With positive results,
he has represented clients and filed amicus curiae
briefs before the Washington Courts of Appeal
more than half a dozen times on the subject of
animal law. Currently he has animal law appeals
pending before the Washington Supreme Court, Washington
Court of Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy
Appellate Panel. Adam is married with cats. (1
Hour) Topic: When Push Comes to Shove: The
Limits of Use of Force Against Animals; When Bark
Comes to Bite: The Limits of Using Animals as
Force. Mr. Karp will also host an open forum to
discuss his solo law practice where he exclusively
practices Animal Law. Sample Motions and Pleadings
will be reviewed.
Marta Richards started practice in Louisiana
more than 35 years ago, spending her first fifteen
years in big firm settings as a contracts, business
and corporate lawyer representing banks. She is
now a solo practitioner in Baton Rouge and has
expanded her practice to represent individuals
in many settings, including family law, employment
law, personal injury, and in forensic psychiatric
settings. She has also become a jack-of-all-trades
animal lawyer as a result of serving as general
counsel to two animal rescue organizations in
Baton Rouge and as a member of the board of Baton
Rouge's Friends of the Animals, and she has advised
or represented other entities and persons around
the state concerning animal ownership, adoption,
foster care, and abuse, as well as in challenges
to the operation of municipal and parish animal
shelters. (1 Hour Panel) Topic: Valuation of
Animals in state and federal law
Marie Erickson is the Head of Public Services
at the Law Library of Louisiana. She is both librarian
and lawyer, having obtained an MLS from LSU's
School of Library and Information Science in 1977
and a JD from Loyola in 1982. She has been a member
of the Louisiana Bar since October of 1982, and
is also a member of its Solo/Small Firms and Animal
Law sections. She is a member of the New Orleans
Bar AssociationShe occasionally writes for the
library's newsletter, De Novo, on animal law issues.
She is also a member of the American Association
of Law Libraries and its southeastern chapter,
and the New Orleans Association of Law Librarians.
She is a graduate from St. John's College in Annapolis,
MD, where she studied Ancient Greek. (1 Hour Panel)
Topic: Valuation of Animals in state and federal
law
Chris Green is a graduate of Harvard Law
School and the University of Illinois, where he
created the school's Environmental Science degree
program. He is a founding Vice-Chair of the American
Bar Association Animal Law Committee, Chair of
the ABA Veterinary Malpractice Subcommittee, and
served on the Board of Advisors for the National
Center for Animal Law. He is also a member of
the American Veterinary Medical Law Association,
the Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals-Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Illinois
Farm Bureau. In 2004, Green wrote The Future of
Veterinary Malpractice Liability in the Care of
Companion Animals, which was published in the
10th Anniversary Issue of Animal Law. That same
year he won First Prize at Harvard's inaugural
National Animal Advocacy Competition, an event
he now regularly judges. Chris has consulted on
animal legal issues for CBS News, Dateline NBC,
Smart Money Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Washington
Post & ABA Journal. He contributed to the
book Vet Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Protecting
Your Pet's Health, and frequently lectures on
civil damages/animal valuation matters at law
schools and veterinary colleges around the country.
He was a member of the California Veterinary Medical
Association's Non-Economic Recovery Task Force--helping
the organization explore legislative options to
address the profession's increasing liability
exposure--and later acted as an advisor to members
of the American Veterinary Medical Association's
Task Force on the Legal Status of Animals, addressing
those same issues at a national level. Chris currently
divides his time between New York City and Illinois,
where he manages a farm that has been in his family
for 173 years. Green additionally has appeared
in and produced several award-winning films, worked
extensively in the music business, and hosted
a weekly music video program for PBS television.
(1 Hour Panel) Topic: Non-economic damages
in Veterinary Malpractice Cases
Elizabeth Choate has a Bachelor of Science
in Political Science and Economics and a Juris
Doctor with a certificate in Government Law. She
has worked multiple sessions within the Texas
state legislature both as a Policy Analyst and
Chief of Staff/General Counsel. Currently, Ms.
Choate serves as the Director of Government Relations/General
Counsel for the Texas Veterinary Medical Association
(TVMA). Her responsibilities include addressing
the legal questions of the membership covering
a diverse range of issues, including but not limited
to practice, ethics and employment law. In addition,
Elizabeth helps TVMA members as they maneuver
the many layers of state and federal agency regulations
that govern the veterinary profession. Elizabeth
also assists TVMA's leaders in determining the
legislative priorities of the membership and then
works diligently to lobby those priorities and
to protect and promote the veterinary profession
within the state legislature. This includes working
to build strong relationships with and providing
information to educate elected officials on the
issues that are of importance to Texas veterinarians.
(1 Hour Panel) Topic: Non-economic damages
in Veterinary Malpractice Cases
Paul Shapiro is Vice President, Farm Animal
Protection, Humane Society of the United States.
Mr. Shapiro has played an integral role in numerous
successful legislative and corporate campaigns
to improve the plight of farm animals. Shapiro's
work has helped enact farm animal protection laws
in California, Arizona, Michigan, Maine, Colorado,
Oregon, and Ohio. He has also worked with dozens
of companies, including some of the world's top
retailers, to improve animal welfare in their
supply chains. He founded Compassion Over Killing
in 1995 and served as its campaigns director until
January 2005. While there, he worked as a farm
animal cruelty investigator and led initiatives
such as the successful effort to end the use of
the misleading "Animal Care Certified"
logo on battery cage egg cartons nationwide. Mr.
Shapiro has been interviewed in hundreds of print,
broadcast, and online news sources as an authority
on farm animal welfare. He has also published
dozens of articles about animal welfare in publications
ranging from daily newspapers to academic journals.
(1 Hour) Topic: An overview of current legislation
and litigation involving farm animals.
Frederick Whitrock is presently General
Counsel with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife
and Fisheries and has been employed by the Department
for over ten years. Prior to his present employment,
he was an Assistant Attorney General with the
Louisiana Department of Justice, representing
the State Mineral Board, Office of Coastal Restoration
and Management, State Land Office, and the Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries. Mr. Whitrock holds
a Juris Doctorate from the University of Miami,
a Master of Science (Environmental Science) from
LSU, and a Bachelor of Science (Oceanography)
from the University of Wisconsin. (1 Hour Panel)
Topic: An Overview of the Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries' Regulation Over Exotic
Big Cats, Non-Human Primates, and Constrictor
Snakes
Randy Turner, Former Chairman of the Animal
Law Section of the Texas Bar Association, Animal
Law Attorney, Bailey & Galyen, Bedford, Texas.
Mr. Turner has always been an advocate for animals.
He has worked as a volunteer on wildlife conservation
projects around the world, including orangutan
rehabilitation in Borneo, Indonesia, elephant
conservation in Kenya, and black rhino conservation
in Zimbabwe. He has represented and served on
the boards of directors of several animal welfare
organizations. He is a volunteer attorney with
the Animal Legal Defense Fund. A substantial portion
of his law practice is devoted to representing
people who help animals. He handles the following
types of animal law cases: Defense of animal rights
advocates in criminal and civil cases; Representation
of humane organizations and rescue groups; Claims
against pet shops, breeders, and puppy mills
(1 Hour) Topic: Case Study - Intrinsic Value
of Animals
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