2004

Presented "Animal Law: An Overview" at the Minnesota State Bar Association Animal Law Committee meeting

Presented "National and International Trends in Animal Law" at the Minnesota State Bar Association Annual Meeting, and made presentation on endangered species, focusing on wolves and salmon

2005

Wrote "Veterinary Malpractice: Leading the Evolution of Animal Law," TortSource, Spring 2005, an ABA-TIPS Publication

Wrote "Recent Developments in Animal Tort and Insurance Law" (with Julie I. Fershtman), The Tort Trial & Insurance Law Journal

Wrote "The Animal Law Committee: A New Commitment for TIPS and the ABA," The Brief, an ABA-TIPS Publication

Keynoted at the annual meeting for the Minnesota Foundation for Responsible Animal Care (MN FRAC), the largest agricultural consortium in Minnesota, with a speech titled "Overview of Animal Law"

Spoke on a hot issues panel at the Annual Minnesota Veterinary Association Meeting, which included Bernard E. Rollin

Spoke at the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) Rural and Farm Institute on the subject of Animal Law

Presented "Animal Law and Guardianship" at the University of Minnesota Department of Animal Science

Presented "Important Nonfiction" at the National Cat Writers' Association Conference

Presented "To Matter, or Not to Matter" at Midwest Fiction Writers Conference

Spoke on Animal Law at the Edina Rotary Club

Spoke on Animal Law for the Carleton College Minnesota Alumni Association

Presented "Pet Custody: Do Best Interests Standards Apply?" at the Minnesota State Bar Association Family Law Institute

Chaired a TIPS CLE program at the ABA Annual Meeting, "It's a Dog's Life: What Does Tort and Insurance Law Have to Say About It?" Also contributed a paper, "Animal Law and the Momentum for Change"

2006

Presented "Disaster Relief Efforts of ABA-TIPS and Its Animal Law Committee" at the Humane Society of the United States National Conference on Animals in Disaster

Spoke on Animal Law at the Golden Valley Rotary Club, MN

Co-taught an Animal Law course at Hamline University School of Law which was the first time Animal Law was taught in a law school in Minnesota

Presented "Animals in Crisis" at the Virginia Animal Control Association Conference

Presented "Animals in Disaster" at the Michigan Animal Law Symposium which was co-sponsored by the State Bar of Michigan Animal Law Section and the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association

Wrote "Vicious Dog Laws Unconstitutional in Ohio," which was distributed by Animal Arc

Participated in Compassionate Action for Animals' Animal Law Panel which was one of a series of panels preceding the Peter Singer keynote at the University of Minnesota

Presented "Animals in Crisis" at the Minnesota State Bar Association Animal Law Section Annual Meeting and participated in Veterinary Malpractice panel

Presented CLE on Animal Law for Washington County Bar Association, MN

Presented "Animals in Disaster" at the Minnesota Disaster Animal Relief Coalition Annual Meeting

Presented "Animals in Crisis" as part of the panel "Legal Developments for Animals and Their Rescuers in Disasters" at the Lewis & Clark Animal Law Conference which included Steven Wise, Russ Mead, and Drew Moore.

2007

Presented "Making It in the ABA: A Personal and Institutional Journey" at the Future of Animal Law Conference at the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) Conference at Harvard University Law School on a panel moderated by Paul Waldau, which included Christopher Green, Camilla Fox, David Favre, Pamela Frasch, Adam Karp, Bernard Rollin, and many other speakers

Presented "Animal Law: Fast Forward," an Animal Law Continuing Legal Education (CLE), for Thomson University (which provides internal education for leading this legal publisher f/k/a West Publishing and n/k/a Thomson Reuters

Presented "Conquering Legal Quicksand" at the American Veterinary Medical Law Association (AVMLA) 14th Annual Conference

Presented "Hot Topics in Animal Law" to Hamline University Religion Class

Presented "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: Designing a Poison Pill for a Social Movement" at the ABA Annual Meeting, a program sponsored by the Media, Privacy, and Defamation Law Committee

Moderator of "Animals in Bioengineering: A Consideration of Law, Ethics, and Science," a program presented by the ABA-TIPS Committees on Animal Law, Intellectual Property Law, Media, Privacy and Defamation Law, the ABA Section of Science and Technology Law, and Duke University School of Law. My panel featured Dr. Robert J. Wall, Dr. Betty Goldentyer, Dr. Paul VanRaden, and Rachel G. Lattimore

2008

Wrote "Animal Law: A Significant Journey" for an ABA book tentatively titled "ABA-TIPS Guide to Litigating Animal Law Disputes"

Presented "Recent Developments at the ABA" at the Annual Animal Law Section CLE co-sponsored by the MSBA and William Mitchell College of Law

Presented "Protecting the Good Samaritan (Who Would Save Dorothy and Her Little Dog, Too") at the ABA-TIPS National Trends, Emerging Issues and Cutting Edge Medical Disability Determinations Affecting All State Workers' Compensation Laws program which was Co-sponsored by Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group, The College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers, National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary, AMA and ACOEM

Presented "Pets in Family Law Cases" at the MSBA Family Law Institute

2009

Presented at the first International Animal Law Conference in Canada: The Animal, Within the Sphere of Humans’ Needs, organized by the International Research Group in Animal Law (GRIDA) at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) 

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