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LSBA ANIMAL LAW SECTION'S
8TH ANNUAL
CLE
"PRACTICE,
PRACTICE, PRACTICE"
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2016
7 CLE Credit Hours
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ST. CHRISTOPHER HOTEL
114
Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
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Coffee
& Tea provided throughout the day.
$160 for Animal Law
Section Members
$170 for Non-Section Members of the LSBA
$45 for individuals not seeking CLE credits
AGENDA (UPDATED!!)
8:00 to 8:30 am REGISTRATION
HOUR
1
8:30 - 9:30
am
Anna E. Morrison-Ricordati How to
Assemble an Animal Case: From negligence and malpractice to intentional
acts against companion animals, this topic covers the civil law aspects
of evaluating a case and preparing the complaint from a plaintiff’s
perspective. This topic will also cover anticipated
dispositive motions during litigation and hurdles in jury trials
(including how to address them). (1 hour)
PowerPoint
Presentation Here; PowerPoint
Text Slides
5
minute break
HOUR 2
9:35 -
10:35
am
Carney Anne Nasser The Convergence
of National and International Law and what recent changes mean for big
cats in the US and abroad: International issues, including the cub
bottle feeding industry in the US, the canned lion hunting in South
Africa, international treaties addressing endangered species. (1 Hour)
5
minute break
HOUR
3
10:40 - 11:40
am
Delcianna Winders Animal
Welfare Act in Practice and update on Harvard’s Animal Law and Policy
Program. (1 Hour)
11:40
am - 12:40 pm
Lunch - Provided by CARMO in the Hotel Lobby
HOUR 4
12:40 - 1:40
pm
Cheri Deatsch
Louisiana Animal
Lawyers in Practice: Case studies (30 minutes). Materials
(Word); PowerPoint
Presentation Here
Alyson Vamvoras Antoon Louisiana
Animal Lawyers in Practice: Case Study: Lawsuits against
state actors who harm family pets. (30 minutes) PowerPoint
Presentation Here
5
minute break
HOUR
5
1:45 - 2:45 pm
Jeff Pierce Case Study: Kuehl v. Sellner - the first
civil lawsuit to succeed in applying the Endangered Species Act to
captive endangered animals. (1 Hour)
PowerPoint
Presentation Here; Opinion
5
minute break
HOUR
6
2:50 - 3:50
pm
Stacy
Palowsky
Case Studies: A discussion of Ms. Palowsky’s current
animal
law cases. (1 Hour)
5
minute break
HOUR 7
3:55 -
4:55 pm
Emily Posner
Louisiana Animal
Lawyers in Practice - Case Study: Chimpanzee litigation (30 minutes); Julia Breaux Melancon - Updates on
Louisiana animal laws and legislative initiatives. (30 minutes).
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:
ANNA
MORRISON-RICORDATI
of AMR Law Group, LLC - Anna Morrison-Ricordati practices general civil
litigation and animal law in Chicago, Illinois. Handling all aspects of
dispute resolution, Anna has represented individual and business
clients in mediations, arbitrations, jury and bench trials, equitable
remedies, and appeals. She is a past Chair of the Illinois State Bar
Association's Animal Law Section Council (2010-2011), the Chicago Bar
Association's Animal Law Committee (2012-2013), the DuPage County Bar
Association's Animal Law Section (2013-2014), is a past President of
the North Suburban Bar Association (2014-2015), and has served as a CLE
speaker on emerging legal topics for many organizations, including the
Chicago Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association. Anna
has also taught at The John Marshall Law School in animal law courses.
JEFF
PIERCE
serves as Legislative Counsel for the Animal Legal Defense Fund,
collaborating with the organization’s several programs to structure and
implement legislative priorities. He joined the Animals Legal Defense
Fund in 2013 as a Litigation Fellow, developing and bringing lawsuits
under various causes of action including the Endangered Species Act and
the Administrative Procedure Act, and continues to maintain a
litigation docket in addition to his legislative responsibilities. Jeff
earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School (2013) where, as a SALDF
(Student Animal Legal Defends Fund) member, he oversaw his chapter’s
pro bono efforts and conducted legal research for the nonprofit
Compassion Over Killing. Jeff clerked for the Animal Legal Defense Fund
while a law student and served as Editor-in-Chief of Stanford’s Journal
of Animal Law and Policy. In addition to law, Jeff studied biology at
Duke University (2001), where he graduated summa cum laude, and
theology at Yale University (2006). As a Fulbright Scholar in
Swaziland, southern Africa (2002), Jeff researched the impact of
commercial forestry on rural communities and wildlife.
CARNEY
ANNE NASSER
Carney
Anne Nasser, one of New Orleans Magazine’s Top Female Achievers for
2016, is one of the PETA Foundation’s three in-house captive wildlife
legal specialists. She provides the organization with critical
expertise regarding the federal Endangered Species Act, the federal
Animal Welfare Act and she also strategizes and deploys creative
strategies to ameliorate the exploitation of big cats, elephants,
bears, primate, orcas, and other captive exotic and endangered animals.
Carney Anne draws on her professional expertise to provide additional
counsel on regulatory matters, legislative policy, lobbying, and trends
in animal law. This expertise includes more than ten years of
litigation work in private practice, government, and the nonprofit
sector. Prior to re-joining PETA Foundation earlier this month, Carney
Anne served as senior attorney for wildlife and regulatory affairs at
the Animal Legal Defense Fund from 2014-2016, and from 2010-2014,
served as litigation counsel for the PETA Foundation’s Captive Animal
Law Enforcement department—the same department she has recently
rejoined. Carney Anne has played a key role in the rescue of nearly two
dozen exotic animals, who are now thriving in reputable sanctuaries. An
internationally recognized expert on captive wildlife, Nasser recently
represented the Animal Legal Defense Fund at the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) seventeenth meeting
of the parties in Johannesburg, South Africa and at the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress in
Hawaii in September 2016.
Carney Anne holds a B.A. in political science from U.C. San Diego, a
J.D. from Tulane University, and a graduate degree in community
advocacy from the George Washington University Graduate School of
Political Management. Carney Anne is a recognized speaker on the
national circuit and has served as national and international media
spokesperson on a wide range of animal protection issues, including a
recent appearance on NBC’s nationally syndicated Today Show, where she
was called upon to imparted her thoughts about the use of live tiger
mascots by Louisiana State University.
ALYSON
VAMVORAS ANTOON
is a solo practitioner at Antoon Law Firm, L.L.C. in Lake Charles,
Louisiana. She handles a variety of cases, mainly in the areas of child
custody, criminal defense, and personal injury. However, Alyson has
always had a passion for animals and animal law. She has and is
currently handling multiple federal 1983 actions involving dogs that
were shot by police officers. She is also legal counsel for the Lake
Charles Pit Bull Rescue and serves on its Board of Directors. Alyson is
a graduate of Louisiana State University where she obtained a
Bachelor’s degree in History. Thereafter, Alyson received her Juris
Doctor from Southern University Law Center. Alyson is also a certified
family and divorce mediator. Alyson will serve as the president elect
of the Young Lawyers Section of the Southwest Louisiana Bar Association
(2017) and has been selected as a 2017 Louisiana Super Lawyers “Rising
Star.”
STACY R.
PALOWSKY began her
career in insurance defense litigation, she always had an interest in
animal law, and in particular, equine law; therefore, in 2002, she
formed Palowsky Law, LLC, so that she could expand her practice
areas. Now, though she still focuses on litigation; her areas of
practice include, equine law, animal law, commercial litigation, legal
malpractice, insurance law, personal injury, and general civil
litigation. Ms. Palowsky earned her J.D. from Tulane Law School, cum
laude, in 1997.
CHERI
DEATSCH Ms.
Deatsch is a solo practitioner with offices in New Orleans and Denver
specializing in criminal defense and defense of animals facing
dangerous/vicious designations. She received her J.D. from Loyola
University School of Law in 1995, and has been in the courtroom nearly
every day since then fighting for those humans and animals without a
voice.
In addition to her work as an attorney, Ms. Deatsch is a volunteer
first responder for animals in disasters. She has led teams of
animal rescuers in Chile, Brazil, Japan, and Thailand, as well as in
Superstorm Sandy; Hurricane Matthew; the Moore, Oklahoma tornado, and
the 2016 flood of Louisiana. Ms. Deatsch also volunteers her time
to advise the Humane Society of Louisiana in legal matters.
JULIA
BREAUX MELANCON Ms.
Melancon is the Louisiana Director of the Humane Society of the United
States and advocates before the Louisiana legislature on behalf of
animals.
DELCIANNA
J. WINDERS
is the first-ever Academic Fellow of the Animal Law & Policy
Program at Harvard Law School, where her work focuses on the regulation
of captive wildlife. She has been involved in legal issues
pertaining to captive wildlife for more than a decade, including as the
head of Captive Animal Law Enforcement at the PETA Foundation, where
she spearheaded various efforts, including a lawsuit that ended the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services decades-long practice of secretly
issuing permits to circuses and roadside zoos; legislative
efforts that resulted in Ringling’s elephant phase-out; and the rescue
of dozens of animals from substandard facilities to sanctuaries.
In addition to practicing animal law in a variety of settings, Delci
has taught at Tulane University School of Law and Loyola University New
Orleans College of Law and presented at law schools across the country,
including Columbia, Harvard, New York University, Stanford, University
of Chicago, and Yale. Her scholarship has appeared in the NYU Law
Review and the Animal Law Review, and her writing has also recently
appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today,
the Wall Street Journal. Delci continues to be actively involved in
advocacy efforts. She is arguing an Endangered Species Act appeal on
behalf of the orca Lolita, serving as an expert witness in a lawsuit
against UniverSoul Circus, and files amicus briefs on areas within her
expertise. Delci 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.
* Please
note that the schedule has changed as Chris Green has a scheduling
conflict and will not
make the CLE as previously indicated.
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