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3rd
Annual Animal
Law Section CLE
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 28,2011
114
Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
8:30
am until 5:00 p.m.
Approved
for 7 Hours including 1 hour of ethics and 1 hour
professionalism at one low price!
UPDATE:
As of today, there is still time to register.
To help us with our food order, if you are planning
on registering at the door, please still complete
the registration form and write in that you will
be paying at the door. FAX REGISTRATION TO: (504)
524-4084
Thanks!
REDUCED RATE PARKING: Valet Parking
will be available. Please check in at the front
desk and NOTIFY them that you are with the Animal
Law Section CLE. The reduced rate is $10 for 4
hours and $16.80 plus tax for 8 or more hours.
Cash or Credit card accepted.
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down for TESTIMONIALS from last year's attendees!
(7
Hours approved including
1 hour of ethics and 1 hour of professionalism)
$155
for Animal Law Section Members
$165 for Non-Section Members of the LSBA
$75 for
non-profit individuals and other individuals not
seeking CLE credits
**Registration
includes coffee and tea served throughout the
day with LUNCH donated by
Whole Foods.
The Section's 3rd Annual CLE will feature panels
of top animal law attorneys, law professors, and
scholars from around the country and Louisiana.
See schedule and speaker biographies below:
AGENDA
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8:00-8:30
am: REGISTRATION
(Walk-ins: If possible, please fax registration
to (504) 524-4084 and pay at the door)
HOUR 1
8:30-9:30
Marianne Sullivan & Carter Dillard
An introduction to and overview of the development
of intensive confinement agriculture and the animal
welfare laws governing animal agribusiness at
the state and federal levels.
An introduction to the relationship between consumer
protection laws and animal agribusiness. (1 Hour)
HOUR 2
9:35 - 10:35
Carter Dillard, Scott Heiser, Mariann Sullivan
This panel will focus on legal issues arising
from investigations of and litigation regarding
intensive confinement animal agriculture, including
the applicability of state cruelty codes and their
use by litigants other than state prosecutors,
to address criminal corporate liability in the
agribusiness setting, legal issues arising from
undercover investigations, and legal issues related
to human health concerns. (1 Hour)
HOUR 3
10:40 - 11:40
David Cassuto, Pace Law School
Bruce Myers, Environmental Law Institute
Yolanda Eisenstein, Eisenstein Law Office (Moderator)
This panel will discuss pollution and nuisance
litigation stemming from agribusiness and the
intersection of factory farming and environmental
regulations and litigation. (1 Hour)
LUNCH 11:40
-12:40 - LUNCH
INCLUDED, DONATED BY WHOLE FOODS!!
HOUR 4
12:40 - 1:25
Marta Richards
Ownership of Animals in Louisiana; Arguments for/against
an Animal Code
Marta Richards (Louisiana) - An overview of Louisiana
animal laws and a discussion of the pros and cons
of adopting an Animal Code to address the inconsistencies
of laws developed on behalf of humans rather than
animals. (45 minutes)
1:25-1:40
Daina Bray
A discussion addressing the laws applying to animal
shelters in Louisiana, and avenues and remedies
that are available for addressing shelters that
are not in compliance.
(15 minutes)
HOUR 5
1:45 - 2:45
Scott Heiser
Canine CSI: Prosecuting Animal Cruelty Cases
A discussion covering the common issues law
enforcement officials confront when investigating
and prosecuting animal cruelty cases. (1 Hour)
HOUR 6
2:50 - 3:50
Ethics
Yolanda Eisenstein
Legal Ethics in the Animal Law Environment
- Animal law cases involve the same ethical issues
in the client-lawyer relationship as other cases.
However, in these cases there may be a third component,
a living animal. This may raise ethical issues
that are not found in typical cases or easily
resolved by the rules of professional responsibility.
This presentation looks at the various ethical
dilemmas that may arise, and have arisen in actual
cases, and the rules that apply. This is an interactive
discussion with the attendees, who are asked to
weigh in on ethical challenges in client-lawyer-animal
cases. (1 Hour)
HOUR 7
3:55 - 4:55
Professionalism - Honorable Tammy Stewart
(1 Hour)
SPEAKER
BIOS:
Mariann Sullivan,
American Bar Association TIPS Animal Law Committee
Chair (August 2010- August 2011). Ms.
Sullivan is a lawyer and an adjunct professor
of animal law at Brooklyn and Cardozo Law Schools
and an Instructor in Law at Columbia University
School of Law. She has served as chair of the
Committee on Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals
of the New York City Bar Association, and chair
of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial
Insurance Practice Section’s Animal Law Committee.
She is also the co-founder and Program Director
of Our Hen House, a multi-media online resource
for all kinds of opportunities to change the world
for animals. With David Wolfson, she is the author
of a trilogy of articles on farmed animals and
the law: “Foxes in the Henhouse: Animals
Agribusiness and the Law, A Modern American Fable”
in Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions;
“What’s Good for the Goose… The
Supreme Court of Israel, Foie Gras, and the Future
of Farmed Animals in the United States,”
in the 2007 volume of the Duke Journal of Law
and Contemporary Problems; and “If it Looks
Like a Duck: New Jersey, The Regulation of Common
Farming Practices, and the Meaning of ‘Humane,’”
in Animal Law and the Courts. Mariann has spoken
at various conferences and animal law related
events throughout the country, as well as Animal
Rights Africa’s Animal Law Review Consultation
Workshop in Johannesburg. Mariann has served on
the board of directors for Farm Sanctuary and
The Animals Agenda, and currently serves on the
board for Animal Welfare Trust and Animal Welfare
Advocacy. She lives in NYC with her partner, Jasmin
Singer, and her precious pit bull, Rose.
Carter Dillard
is the director of litigation for the Animal
Legal Defense Fund. Prior
to joining ALDF, Carter was appointed to the faculty
of Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law,
as a Westerfield Fellow. He also served as an
Honors Program attorney for the U.S. Department
of Justice and as a legal advisor to the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, in the National
Security Law Division. Carter later joined Compassion
Over Killing as general counsel and then the Humane
Society of the United States, where he served
as director of farm animal litigation. He has
a B.A. from Boston College, a J.D., Order of the
Coif and with honors, from Emory University, and
an LL.M. from New York University where he wrote
his thesis under Jeremy Waldron. He is a peer
reviewer for the journal Bioethics, and his work
has been published by Yale, Duke, and Northwestern
universities. Carter has been invited to speak
at the UN World Civic Forum, has appeared on Fox
Business News, and he has been quoted as an animal
law expert in the New York Times and the International
Herald Tribune.
Scott Heiser
is the Senior Staff Attorney for the Animal
Legal Defense Fund, Criminal
Justice Program. Mr. Heiser has been a prosecutor
for seventeen years, serving the last eight years
as the elected district attorney in Benton County,
Oregon. While Scott has prosecuted all types of
criminal conduct; however, he has always found
animal cruelty cases among the most compelling
cases he has handled. His passion for holding
animal abusers accountable for their crimes recently
lead Scott to join the ALDF, serving as the senior
staff attorney in the ALDF’s Criminal Justice
Program. Scott received his JD from Northwestern
School of Law of Lewis and Clark College and his
undergraduate degree in economics from Oregon
State University. In 2006, Scott served as the
president of the Oregon District Attorneys Association
and as member of the Governor’s Drug and
Violent Crime Advisory Committee. Scott is a regular
instructor at trainings hosted by the Oregon Department
of Justice and he has served on the Board of Directors
of his local humane society animal shelter, helping
to fund the construction of a new shelter. In
2011 Scott received the Diamond Collar Award from
the Oregon Humane Society for his hard work on
behalf of animals.
Professor David N. Cassuto
is a professor at Pace Law School in White Plains,
New York. Professor Cassuto teaches in the areas
of property, professional responsibility, animal
law, water law, international comparative law,
and legal and environmental theory. He directs
the Brazil American Institute for Law and Environment
(BAILE), a cooperative endeavor with the Getulio
Vargas Foundation School of Law in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Professor Cassuto is a Fulbright fellow.
He's an ongoing visiting professor at the Federal
University of Bahia, Brazil. He is the Class of
1946 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Environmental
Law at Williams College. Professor Cassuto is
the author of several books including, Animal
Law and the Courts. Co-editor with Rebecca
Huss & Taimie Bryant. Thomson West Press,
2008; Chapter: Animal Sacrifice and the First
Amendment, in Animal Law and the Courts: A
Reader. ( Taimie Bryant, David N. Cassuto, Rebecca
Huss, eds.) ( Thomson West, 2008).
Yolanda Eisenstein
is the principal attorney at Eisenstein
Law Office a firm dedicated to
the practice of animal law. She is also an adjunct
professor in Animal Law at SMU Dedman School of
Law and a former legal director of Human Rights
Initiative, a non-profit organization that provides
pro bono legal services to victims of international
human rights abuses. Ms. Eisenstein is licensed
to practice law in Texas and New Mexico. She is
a member of the American Bar Association Tort
Trial and Insurance Practice Animal Law Section,
the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Dallas Bar
Association, the State Bar of Texas Animal Law
Section. She volunteers for the Texas Humane Legislation
Network. Ms. Eisenstein earned her J.D. at SMU
Dedman School of Law, cum laude and her
B.A. in Arts and Humanities, magna cum laude
from the University of Texas at Dallas. She
has written numerous animal law related articles
including, The International Black Market in
Puppies, Winter 2009 ABA TIPS Animal Law Committee
Newsletter; Your Furry Friends and the Law,
Texas Bar Journal, July 2008; Starting an Animal
Law Practice, State Bar of Texas Animal Law
Section 2008, Animal Law Institute, The Link
between Animal Abuse and Family Violence,Continuing
Legal Education to Dallas lawyers; Human Violence
and Animal Abuse, presentation to Dallas Law
Enforcement and Texas Legislative Update,
Texas Animal Control Association, 2007.
Marta Richards
has practiced law in Louisiana for almost 35 years
and maintains a private practice in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. Her practice areas include representation
of individuals in psychiatric settings, personal
injury litigation and contracts and business transactions.
She has served as general counsel to Animal Protective
and Welfare Society (APAWS), a pet rescue organization
in Baton Rouge and has consulted with APAWS, Friends
of Acadiana Animals and other entities and persons
around the state in areas concerning animal ownership,
adoption, foster care, and animal abuse.
Daina Bray,
Associate, Phelps Dunbar, LLP, Baton Rouge, LA.
Daina is an associate in the firm's regional commercial
litigation group in the Baton Rouge office. Her
previous experience includes advising both public
and private clients in disputes before various
arbitration institutions and in U.S. court. She
has particular experience advising clients on
disputes relating to the energy and insurance
sectors, and she has advised clients on points
of U.S. law relevant to dispute resolution and
international business. Daina has also represented
pro bono clients in regard to animal law, immigration
and constitutional matters and is fluent in Spanish.
Mrs. Bray is a Fulbright Scholar who earned her
J.D. from Stanford Law School, with pro bono distinction
in 2004 and was Senior Publishing Editor and Lead
Articles Editor, for the Stanford Journal of International
Law. She earned her B.A. at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in International
Studies, with distinction and highest honors,
1998; Phi Beta Kappa.
Bruce Myers,
Environmental
Law Institute. Mr. Myers
is a senior attorney at ELI, where he works on
a range of the Institute’s U.S. and international
environmental programs. His domestic research
centers on environmental consequences of industrial
agriculture, constitutional environmental law
in the courts, protection of water resources,
and chemical regulation (including toxicity testing
reform). He has over eight years of experience
with the Institute. He practiced law at a large
Washington, DC, law firm, and he served as a law
clerk to a senior judge of the U.S. District Court
for the Central District of California, at Los
Angeles. He speaks French and earned his J.D.
(Dillard Scholar and Order of the Coif), University
of Virginia, 1996, and his B.A. with Highest Distinction
(Phi Beta Kappa), International Relations and
French, University of Virginia, 1993.
Honorable Tammy Stewart,
Orleans Parish Juvenile Court Judge. Judge
Stewart has served as an Orleans Parish Juvenile
Court since 2009 wherein she presides over juvenile
cases involving delinquency, Families in Need
of Services (FINS), and adoptions. Judge Stewart
is a native of New Orleans, graduating with honors
from John F. Kennedy High School and Southern
University at New Orleans, where she received
a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science
and earned her Juris Doctorate Degree from The
Ohio State University College of Law in Columbus,
Ohio. Judge Stewart formerly served as an Assistant
District Attorney in Orleans Parish under Harry
Connick. Her legal affiliations include, Louisiana
State Bar Association, American Bar Association
and New Orleans Bar Association. She was recognized
as an Honored Professional in the Nationwide Registry
of Who's Who in Executives and Business. She is
a former board member of Innocence Project New
Orleans and a former adjunct professor of Criminal
Justice at Southern University at New Orleans.
She is a volunteer with the Louisiana SPCA, the
Humane Society and the Louisiana State Bar Association's
Secret Santa Project, where she has worked as
a liaison with organizations such as Boys Hope
Girls Hope and Head Start. Judge Stewart is a
member of the Advisory Committee to the Supreme
Court for the Revision of the Code of Judicial
Conduct and was also appointed by the Supreme
Court to serve as Judge Pro Tempore in First City
Court (2003-2007).
Special
Thanks to Our Food Sponsor:
CLE COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MICHELE MOREL, BARBARA
ORMSBY AND ARIEL DIGIULIO
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