Update on the Latest Programs and Events in Your Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section

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• Date: 01 January 2025

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Update on the Latest Programs and Events in Your

Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section

ABA Midyear Meeting Recap

TIPS participated in the 2025 ABA Midyear Meeting in

February in Phoenix, with over 30 business meetings and

lively and well-attended social events, including a membership

outreach event on Friday evening, a late-night outreach event

for young lawyers on Friday, and TIPS’s usual Saturday evening

networking reception.

Congratulations to the TIPS Animal Law Committee

(ALC) and all those involved with the passage of Resolution

504, known as the companion animal resolution, urging

federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to enact

legislation and/or support judicial processes that protect

individuals by protecting their pets in family law and civil

restraining order proceedings (https://www.americanbar.org/

news/reporter_resources/midyear-meeting-2025/house-of-

delegates-resolutions/504/). The resolution was cosponsored

by the ABA Family Law Section and the ABA Commission

on Domestic & Sexual Violence.

Left to right: Megan Senatori (Cochair of the ALC’s

Companion Animal Law Subcommittee), Daina Bray (TIPS

HOD Representative), Maricarmen Garza (Chief Counsel of

the Commission on Domestic & Sexual Violence), Maleaha

Brown (Chair of the Commission on Domestic & Sexual

Violence), Tom Mugavero (Cochair of the ALC’s Companion

Animal Law Subcommittee), and Katherine Larkin-Wong

(ABA Governor). Photo courtesy of Megan Senatori.

Section Leadership Nominated for FY 2025–2026

The following slate of ocers for scal year 2025–2026 was

nominated by the TIPS Council during the 2025 ABA Mid-

year Meeting:

• Chair-Elect (one-year term, then will automatically

become Section Chair for 2026–2027): Meade Mitchell,

Butler Snow LLP, Ridgeland, MS

• Vice-Chair (one-year term): Lisa Dickinson, Dickinson

Law Firm, PLLC, Spokane,WA

• Secretary (one-year term): Deborah Smith, Lewis

Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA

• HOD Representative: Kay Hodge, Boston, MA (term

expires in 2028)

• Council Members, Class of 2028 (ve elected, each

to serve a three-year term): Kristen Bush, Schwartz

Semerdjian Cauley Schena & Bush LLP, San Diego, CA;

Ben Fliegel, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Kellye

Moore, Walker Hulbert Gray & Moore LLP, Perry, GA;

Vincent Tong,Tong Law, P.C., Oakland, CA; Christopher

Ward, Clark Hill PLC, Frisco, TX

Nominees will be ocially elected by TIPS members at the

Section business meeting to be held at the 2025 ABA Annual

Meeting in Toronto, Ontario. Terms of each oce will begin

immediately, which for the Section will eectively begin at

the close of the ABA Annual Meeting.

Procedures for additional nominations. According

to Section bylaws, at any time prior to July 1, additional

nominations may be submitted for one or more of the elected

oces to be lled at the Annual Meeting. Not fewer than

50 Section members in good standing, of whom not more

than 24 are residents of any one state, may le a nominating

petition (which may be in multiple parts), signed, with names

and addresses. All such petitions must be accompanied by

the written consent of persons so nominated. Petitions may

be sent by regular mail to the Section Chair at: Chris Nolan,

Chair, c/o Theresa Livingston, Section Director, Tort Trial &

Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association, 321 N.

Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654-4746. Z