Bruce Wagman

Bruce Wagman is a partner in Schiff Hardin's San Francisco office, with an almost exclusive focus on animal law matters, including litigation, legislative drafting and counseling, education, and private consultation.

He has been ative in animal law since 1992. He is a coeditor of the casebook Animal Law Cases and Materials and coauthor of A Worldview of Animal Law and publishes and speaks regularly on various animal law topics. He has been teaching animal law since 1996 and currently teaches on a rotating basis at three Bay Area law schools.

Wagman's clients include numerous animal protection organizations as well as private individuals. He has worked on behalf of birds, cats, chickens, chimpanzees, cows, deer, dogs, dolphins, ducks, elephants, elk, gorillas, horses (domestic and wild), lions, mice, monkeys, pigs, sharks, turkeys, whales, and wolves, on myriad issues including the use of animals in entertainment, biomedical research, and animal agriculture/food