The attorney, Brian W. Bishop, is representing Kristen Lindsey in her defense against the investigation by the Texas Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners (TBVME) to sanction Dr Lindsey for her alleged killing of a domestic cat (claimed to be feral) with a bow and arrow at close range. Most of us have heard about this notorious case. If not, please click this.
Mr Bishop must also be representing and defending Kristen Lindsey generally. I believe Brian W Bishop has his own law firm in Austin Texas (900 West Avenue).
Update at 1st June 2015: his website is currently down probably as a consequence of acting for Kristen Lindsey. A visitor to PoC, kindly provided his details in a comment.
A colleague of mine has kindly sent me a copy of a leaked letter that Mr Bishop wrote to the TBVME. It is reproduced below and I have typed it out as the image is small and hard to read.
Dear Ms Hudson,
This firm represents Dr. Lindsey DVM in the referenced complaint.
Dr. Lindsey denies that she engaged in any violation of Board Rule 573.4. Among other things, neither the act of posting of a photograph, nor this alleged act of killing of a ferel [sic] cat on Dr. Lindsey’s residential property were “connected to the practice of veterinary medicine’ or otherwise a criminal activity.
Please cease and desist from any further attempts to contact Dr. Lindsey or her family. Also as you are aware, TBVME complaints are confidential per Texas Occ. Code § 801.207 – the TBVME has, however, been discussing the complaint and related matters with third parties (including Dr. Ron Stried DVM) in flagrant disregard of Dr. Lindsey’s right to privacy and confidentiality – these disclosures must stop immediately.
Yours Very truly
Brian W. Bishop
My comment (please add your below): firstly I apologise for adding to Dr Lindsey’s lack of privacy in this matter but feel it needs to be aired due to public interest.
The key statement, I believe, is that the lawyer claims that Lindsey’s alleged killing of Tiger, the ginger tabby, is unconnected with the practice of veterinary medicine.
I strongly disagree with this. It has to be closely connected to the work of a vet because the attitude and behavior of a vet outside of her/his workplace is critical to (a) the standing of the veterinary profession generally in the USA and further afield and (b) the way a vet conducts herself at her workplace.
The work of even the most highly skilled veterinarian will be compromised if the vet in question has a poor attitude towards animal welfare. Compassion is a key characteristic of the good veterinarian. You could argue that it is essential.
Judging by the behavior of Dr Lindsey she has a poor and unsuitable attitude towards the welfare of animals. There was not an ounce of compassion in her alleged close range shooting of her neighbor’s cat.
Whether what she allegedly did is criminal or not is down to a court to decide. However, the broad opinion on the internet, where this notorious example of cat cruelty has been widely discussed, is that she committed a crime and should be punished accordingly.
I am surprised that Mr Bishop is demanding that the TBVME should stop contacting people other than Lindsey because how else can they investigate the matter?
Hello Remona. In the UK people spell defence as I have spelt it! In America they use an ‘s’. You don’t know this but I live in London, UK and therefore I spell it with a ‘c’ but sometimes I make sure it is spelt in the American way. I usually use American spelling by the way. Sometimes I mix the two because this site is international, getting visitors across the world but most visitors come from America. I’ll amend it right now just you!
Thanks are visiting and commenting.
Thank you Sandra. His website has been down for a little while now and it’s still down as I write this:
http://www.brianbishoplaw.com/
It seems that he is being flooded with visitors who want to look him up and perhaps make contact with him to criticise him but of course he is only doing his job.
I have said it before but she genuinely believed that what she was doing was okay therefore she appears have been indoctrinated with the idea by her father I suspect.
My concern is that it is well documented now that people who abuse, injure or kill animals start with animals and then can proceed to people. She seems very narcissistic and self-centered and that with power over more vulnerable animals and people can lead to experimenting with getting away with more. I am not minimizing the cat death. Her attitude is just so bold and blatantly without remorse that there may be something to her being a true psychopath and one that does not have a conscience and will never admit to being wrong.
I, like others here, take care of a TNR colony that live around my home. I also have seven inside that resulted from that colony pre-TNR. I have been following this case closely. I don’t know what the law and veterinary board will do, but I do know what I will do. If I EVER find out that a veterinary office has hired her, I will be contacting said office until she’s fired. With the publicity, I can’t imagine ANY practice putting their reputation on the line by hiring her, but you never know. She’s a psychopath experimenting on defenseless animals now….. what will be her next target? The neighbor’s kid because he strayed over the property line?
I thought the FBI just classified animal cruelty as a felony. How is shooting a domesticated animal, feral or not, with a bow and arrow not considered animal cruelty? How can her lawyer say so aggressively that she has not committed a crime? As a vet, she was fully aware of humane methods to have the cat removed from her property, like animal control, trap and release organizations, etc, so I would think shooting an cat with an arrow in the head just because it’s on your property would be considered animal cruelty. Any thoughts?