Month: June 2018
How to Make the Most of Your Lavender Law Experience
Michael Appel, who recently began working as a Manager on Google’s Corporate Communications Team, first attended the National LGBT Bar Association’s Annual Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair as a rising 2L. While there, he participated in the Career Fair and talked with his former internship employer, Chicago’s Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, and numerous […]
New Jersey Delivers Gestational Carrier Agreement Law and LGBT Friendly Amendments to Artificial Insemination Law
We hope you enjoy this third installment of the LGBT Family Law Institute’s Blog. This piece is written by Deb Guston, Esq. of Guston & Guston, LLP. After an almost six year gestation, New Jersey finally gave birth to a gestational carrier law, delivering enforceable surrogacy contracts to the Garden State. Governor Phil Murphy signed the New Jersey […]
Judge Mike Jacobs
In 2015, following more than ten years as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, National LGBT Bar Association member Judge Mike Jacobs began serving on the State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia. “Nearly all of my years as a lawyer have been devoted to public service,” he says. Judge Jacobs ran unopposed for […]