Animal Shelter Law

Animal shelters and rescues often encounter unique legal issues. At Barnett Law Office LLC, we appreciate the amazing work that animal shelter professionals do every day. We want to help guide you through any issues that you are having, so you can continue your life saving mission. Areas of Animal Shelter Law that we can help you with include, but are not limited to: 

  • Premise liability

  • Contracts

  • Business organizations – including formation and governance

  • In house counsel matters - such as legal issues related to employees and volunteers, internal policy, grant funding, and budget assessment

  • Contract negotiations with your local government

  • Privatization of animal control field services

  • Ownership disputes

  • Intake policy

  • Business structure - from intake, to investigations, to length of stay, we can help you ensure positive disposition outcomes