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Adam Karp exclusively practices animal law statewide from Bellingham, Washington. 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 ninth year actively practicing law. He founded and served as first chair of the Washington State Bar Association's Animal Law Section in 2002. He is also a vice-chair of the American Bar Association's Animal Law Committee. In addition to serving his fifth 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. Mr. Karp 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, and other periodicals, including a dedicated article on his practice in the Seattle Times. He was also quoted in the ABA Journal (November 2007) on animal law. He has chaired several animal law CLEs hosted by the WSBA, and has been a speaker at nearly 20 CLEs and conferences all on the subject of animal law. With positive results, he has argued before the Washington Courts of Appeal on the subject of animal law. Mansour v. King County, 131 Wash.App. 255 (Div. I, 2006), pub.; Williams v. MacMahon, 110 Wash.App. 1031 (Div. II), unpub.; Wolverton v. Young, 2006 WL 165734 (Div. III, 2006), unpub.; and Womack v. von Rardon, 133 Wash. App. 254 (Div. III, 2006), pub.; Clarke v. Tri-Cities Animal Care and Control, 2008 WL 1821709 (Div. III, 2008), pub. Adam, 35, is married with cats.
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