About Us

• About Us Geordie Duckler, P.C, is a law firm located in Tigard, Oregon. Dr. Geordie Duckler heads The Animal Law Practice, a unique private law practice in Portland, Oregon. The Practice's clients are a host of companion, domestic, commercial, farm, and exotic animal owners, and its main focus is on the litigation and trial of animal-related disputes and injuries in cases around the country, at both the state and federal levels. The Animal Law Practice - prosecuting as well as defending hundreds of unique cases a year on claims ranging from relatively minor animal control violations to quite significant veterinary malpractice suits, product defect claims, and animal and human injury and death lawsuits - is the only practice of its kind on the West Coast and one of only a handful in the entire nation. Geordie received his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School in 1987 and his doctorate in biology from UCLA in 1997. As an active research scientist at UCLA, he has lectured and published extensively on animal anatomy and the role of disease within ancient and modern animal populations. He has taught human and animal anatomy/physiology at academic institutions in both California and Oregon, and over the last 23 years has practiced civil and criminal law in both states as well. Geordie is frequently profiled and quoted in local and national newspapers and magazines, as well as on television and radio programs about animal law issues and cases, and has had his work reported on and been interviewed in a variety of media, including The Oregonian, The Tribune, Willamette Week, The National Law Journal, Court TV Radio, Geraldo, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Playboy, and on National Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting, and the BBC. He writes a regular column for The Bark magazine as its resident legal expert, and has been featured in two recent National Geographic nature documentaries in 2007 and 2009.