Animal Law
QB Vick ‘Poster Boy’ for Animal Rights?
Posted Aug 11, 2007, 03:46 pm CDT
By Molly McDonough
Animal rights lawyers and activists celebrated quarterback Michael Vick on Saturday. That's right, they praised, the NFL star who was recently indicted and pleaded not guilty not guilty to charges related to dogfighting.
But the group, which was gathered for an animal law program at the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, was only interested in Vick's celebrity and the light that shines on animal abuse issues, according to the ABA Journal.
“Within seconds of Michael Vick’s indictment for dogfighting, the whole country became very much aware of the abuse of animals,” says Bruce Wagman, a lawyer at Schiff Hardin, whose practice is now exclusively animal law. “He’s our poster boy. We could work at it 20 years or more, and many have, and not achieve such significant change in the public’s understanding. He did it for us.”
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