In honor of Surrogacy Awareness Month, Alexis Cirel, founding partner of our Fertility Law Group, along with CEO of AlceaSurrogacy, Angela Richardson Mook, and CEO of NodalHealth, Dr. Brian Levine, recently hosted an insightful webinar covering everything you need to know about being a surrogate in New York. 

Event and Fundraiser Celebrates Third Anniversary of the Child-Parent Security Act in New York

Partner Alexis L. Cirel, founder of Warshaw Burstein’s Fertility Law Group and a partner in the Matrimonial and Family Law Group, has been invited to become an Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA).

"We are delighted with this new and inclusive definition, as it will go a long way toward ensuring that every person who seeks to build a family will have equal access to fertility treatment and related care," FLG Co-founders, Alexis L. Cirel and Eric I. Wrubel, said.

Alexis L. Cirel, founder of the firm’s Fertility Law Group and a partner in the firm’s Matrimonial Group, was quoted extensively in the "New York Metro Super Lawyers 2023 Magazine" supplement published in Sunday’s New York Times, on the issue of surrogacy.

The annual Super Lawyers list recognizes the top five percent of lawyers in New York for their professional achievements. Lawyers are selected through a process that includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.

Eric I. Wrubel and Alexis L. Cirel, both partners in the Matrimonial and Family Law Group and Co-Chairs of the Fertility Law Group, have been named Best Lawyers in America for the New York Area in 2024. 

Partner Alexis Cirel joined members of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York for a panel discussion on family-building options for the LGBTQIA+ community on June 27th.

Alexis Cirel was recently included on an episode of The Center For Family Building “Donor Conception Conversations” Podcast.

Our Fertility Law Group is a one-stop-shop when building a family through third party reproduction or adoption. We work with clients from the beginning of the fertility or adoption process through to anticipating any eventuality, including divorce, death and other trusts and estates needs. To learn more about what we do to help our clients build families, read more at the link to the right.

Alexis Cirel, partner and practice leader, attended the Seeds 2023 Orlando Conference in Orlando, FL on May 18th.

The Fertility Law Group at Warshaw Burstein is a proud sponsor, along with RMA of New York, of The Chick Mission’s annual “ladies only” event to support the organization’s vital work.

Alexis Cirel, the Founding Partner and Chair of the Fertility Law Group, has been published in the Spring 2023 issue of Seedling Quarterly, the official newsletter of the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS).

The Warshaw Burstein attorneys recognized this year as Top Women Lawyers in the New York Metro area by Super Lawyers, are Alexis Cirel, Kimberly C. Lau, Sarah A. Steckler, Jennifer Sundt, and Neena Tankha.

Warshaw Burstein, LLP today announced that its Fertility Law Group is partnering with new non-profit, A Damn Good Life, to help women who have suffered from breast cancer become parents through surrogacy.

Fertility Law Group Partner Alexis Cirel will be speaking on “Third Party Reproduction: Providing A Space for All in Their Family Planning Journeys”, during a panel at the 3rd annual Reproductive Health Innovation Summit (RHIS) happening February 15th and 16th.

First-of-its-Kind Legal Guide Informs Intended Dads About Building their Families Through Surrogacy and IVF.

Family and Fertility Law Group Partner Alexis Cirel has been published in the American Bar Association Family Advocate Magazine Fall 2022 issue. Her article, "ART Parentage, Divorce and the Marital Presumption," discusses the legal presumption of parentage based on the marital relationship and its application in the context of assisted reproduction.

Eric I. Wrubel and Alexis Cirel Named Best Lawyers In America for the New York Area in 2023.
 
Warshaw Burstein Recognized as a 2023 U.S. News Best Law Firm, Tier 1 in NYC in Family Law

Spring Medical, a fertility care provider with locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, hosted Alexis Cirel, the founding partner of the Fertility Law Group, for their second live panel in a series led by two of Spring’s Medical Directors, Dr. Monica Pasternak and Dr. Catha Fischer to discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade on fertility patients.

Partners Eric Wrubel and Alexis L. Cirel have published an article on GoStork.com discussing the recent Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Last month, partner Alexis Cirel was a panelist at the American Bar Association Family Law Section Spring CLE Conference in New Orleans.

On April 7th, partner Alexis Cirel appeared as the featured guest on Jonathan Shenkman’s Spring Webinar Series entitled Death, Divorce, and Assisted Reproductive Technology: Estate Planning and Family Law Considerations.

Non-Profit Awards Grants to Help Finance Advanced Fertility Treatments

Alexis Cirel, Partner in the Matrimonial Group and Founding Chair of the Fertility Law Group at Warshaw Burstein, LLP, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Baby Quest Foundation.

Partner Alexis Cirel has published an article in the latest issue of Trust & Estates magazine discussing novel legal issues prompted by scientific advances in the world of assisted reproduction.

Alexis Cirel, a partner in the Matrimonial and Family Law Group and Co-Chair of the Fertility Law Group, was recently interviewed on the topic of parental leave policies that account for nontraditional family structures in an article for Robyn, an online community focusing on support and parental wellness for expecting, new and hopeful-to-be parents.

When her doctor presented gestational surrogacy as an option for Alexis Cirel, it felt, at first, like defeat. Not only was it something she hadn't ever anticipated, she learned that it wasn't even a legal option in New York at the time.

Fertility Law Group practice leader Alexis Cirel featured within Law.com Q&A “How I Made Partner” spotlight.
 

The elite professionals comprising Warshaw Burstein’s Fertility Law Group were invited to be a sponsor of the upcoming Men Having Babies East Coast Surrogacy Conference & Gay Parenting Expo.  
 

Dr. Anate Brauer, IVF Director at Shady Grove Fertility and Alexis L. Cirel Fertility Law Group Leader at Warshaw Burstein, LLP hosted an Instagram Live on August 6th discussing Surrogacy, Infertility and more.

Our Fertility Law Group hosted an event, Surrogacy in Sag Harbor: Your Family, Your Way.   It was a perfect evening celebrating the Child-Parent Security Act with incredible fertility leaders and reproductive health advocates. 

​The event was designed to educate intended parents and the public on what the path to surrogacy looks like now that the Child-Parent Security Act has made compensated gestational surrogacy legal in New York State. 

Fertility Law Group leader, Alexis Cirel, sat down with GoStork to discuss her journey to help develop and pass the Child-Parent Security Act.

Fertility Law Group practice leader Alexis Cirel joined Katherine Miller on a new episode of Divorce Dialogues to discuss the relationship between surrogates and intended parents under the CPSA.

On February 15, 2021, the Child-Parent Security Act (CPSA) became law in New York. Codified as Family Court Act Article 5-C, the CPSA is a revolutionary and sweeping new law that applies to children conceived using assisted reproductive means including gestational surrogacy. Gestational surrogacy is, an arrangement in which a woman (the “surrogate”) enters into a “surrogacy agreement” to become pregnant with and give birth to a child to whom she has no genetic connection, with the intent that someone else (the “intended parent(s)”) be the child’s legal parent.

​In a new episode of RESOLVE's Kitchen Table Conversations, partner Alexis L. Cirel ​discusses her advocacy work to make compensated surrogacy a reality in New York State and what it took to pass the Child-Parent Security Act.