Animal Law lawyers in Washington

Firm: Animal Law Offices, PLLC

114 W. Magnolia St., Ste. 400-104 , Bellingham , Washington 98225

Practice Areas: Animal Law

Mr. Karp is a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent-rated and AVVO 10.0 Superb-rated Superlawyer (2020-2025) who exclusively practices animal law. 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 his twenty-seventh (27th) year actively practicing law. He estimates having evaluated and/or handled over 10,000 animal law cases to date and has authored Understanding Animal Law, published by Carolina Academic Press in October 2016.. Mr. Karp founded and served as first chair of the Washington State Bar Association's Animal Law Section in 2002 and has held executive committee positions since its formation. He founded the Idaho State Bar Association’s Animal Law Practice Section in 2012 and continues to serve on its executive committee. He was also a vice chair of the American Bar Association’s (“ABA”) Animal Law Committee since its creation in 2004 through 2022.. Mr. Karp served six years as a contributing editor of the Animal Legal Report, produced by Animal Legal Reports Services, regularly writes on the topic of animal law, and routinely speaks around the nation about animal law, including at Yale, Harvard, Vanderbilt, and Vermont Law School. He has taught animal law as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle University School of Law, and a lecturer at Edmonds Community College. He has been quoted in TIME, the National Law Journal, the ABA Journal, and other periodicals, including dedicated articles on his practice in the Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, Pacific NW Magazine, and Seattle Magazine.. The American Bar Association's Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section's Animal Law Committee's annual Excellence in the Advancement of Animal Law Award recognizes exceptional work by an Animal Law Committee member who, through commitment and leadership, has advanced the humane treatment of animals through the law. Mr. Karp received this award in 2012. In 2019, Mr. Karp received a SEEDS Award from the International Society for Animal Rights ("ISAR").. Mr. Karp has been elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation as part of the 2020 class of Fellows in Washington. The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation is a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. Fellows are recommended by their peers and elected by the Board of the American Bar Foundation, and is limited to one percent of lawyers in each jurisdiction.. Mr. Karp co-authored the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section’s Survey on Animal Tort and Insurance Law for over a decade, published three articles in Thomson West’s Causes of Action series (pertaining to injuries to animals by animals, intentional injuries to animals by humans, and Section 1983 claims involving injury to an animal); two annotations in American Legal Reports (pertaining to preconviction and postconviction forfeiture of animals and private prosecution of crimes); nine articles in the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence Trials (pertaining to veterinary malpractice litigation, use of force against and by animals, assistance animal access, litigating actions under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Bald and Gold Eagle Protection Act, cadaver dog evidence, animal fighting contests, litigating the Lacey Act, improper or inaccurate food preparation by food server resulting in allergic or offended reaction, regulation of commercial or retail breeding or sale of domesticated animals); co-authored one article in the legal encyclopedia American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts related to defending dangerous dog classifications; and completed an annotation on custodial disputes pertaining to animals in American Jurisprudence Proof of Facts. Mr. Karp is working on another treatise concerning litigating attorney misconduct by reference to animal imagery and other racist tropes.. He has chaired several animal law continuing legal education (“CLE”) conferences, spoken at over fifty CLEs around the nation, all on the subject of animal law, including in Hawai'i, New Mexico, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Florida. Mr. Karp also founded and chaired the first and second Animal Law Summit, an international, cross-jurisdictional, multi-day CLE.. With positive results, he argued before the federal district courts of Washington and Idaho, the Washington Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the subject of animal law, resulting in some decisions that many regard as seminal:. Mr. Karp serves as an advisory board member for the Center for Wildlife Ethics. He also volunteered his time to the Northwest Wildlife & Rehabilitation Center, now part of the Whatcom Humane Society. Further, he completed a life-changing 10-day and, later, 3-day, course at the Vipassana Northwest Center.. Mr. Karp and his wife have been vegan for twenty-three and thirty-four years, respectively, and care for one cat, age 15.

Firm: Allen Brecke Law Offices

3360 West Clearwater Avenue , Kennewick , Washington 99336

Practice Areas: Car Accident, Elder Law, Animal Law, Trucking Accident, Slip and Fall, Car Accidents

Allen Brecke, AV Preeminent® Rated (Bar & Judiciary) through Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™, 2013 Tri-Citian of the Year, has collected over $96m for injured accident victims since 1986. He is a native of Tri-Cities area, educated in the Kennewick School system, Whitman College in Walla Walla, the University of Washington (BA, Sociology, 1974) and Gonzaga University School of Law (J.D., 1977). For almost nine years in law school and as a young lawyer, Allen worked in insurance defense trial firms in the Tri-Cities and Spokane. He credits 13 different mentors for giving him the skill and experience to handle complex civil litigation aimed at defeating personal injury claims. In 1983, he formed his own firm to represent people, not insurance companies and corporations, which became Allen Brecke Law Offices (ABLO) in 1986.  His "insider" information has given him the ammunition and confidence to try dozens of jury trials, hundreds of arbitrations and mediations, and prosecute several appeals. Allen manages a well-seasoned staff of 25-, 25-, and 10-year veterans who give free initial consultations to accident and injury victims. Insurance company settlement offers are also evaluated at no charge.

117 North 3rd Street, Suite 104 , Yakima , Washington 98901

Practice Areas: Animal Law

Firm: Rodriguez Interiano Hanson Rodgers PLLC

7502 W Deschutes Pl , Kennewick , Washington 99336

Practice Areas: Animal Law

1700 E Fourth Plain Blvd , Vancouver , Washington 98661

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Car Accident, Slip and Fall, Motorcycle Accident, Life Insurance, Animal Law, Wrongful Death

100 S 9th St , Tacoma , Washington 98402

Practice Areas: Animal Law

650 1st Ave NE , Issaquah , Washington 98027

Practice Areas: Animal Law