Author: Debbie
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 […]
Retroactive Common Law Marriage Provides Pathway to Rights & Benefits for Same-Sex Couples
We hope you enjoy this second installment of the LGBT Family Law Institute‘s Blog. This piece is written by Rebecca G. Levin, Esq. of Jerner & Palmer, P.C. What is a common law marriage? Many people have misconceptions about common law marriage and what it takes to establish one and whether same-sex couples may claim […]
Bendita Cynthia Malakia
Bendita Cynthia Malakia is both a National LGBT Bar Association Board Member At-Large and a member of the newly formed Justice Council. She’s also the Inclusion Manager for the Americas at Hogan Lovells US LLP where her team, led by Director of Inclusion – Americas Leslie Richards-Yellen, executes a diversity and inclusion strategy to develop, […]
Are LGBT Families Different?
The National LGBT Bar Association is excited to begin a new blog seriesh featuring members of the LGBT Family Law Institute. We are honored for our first post to feature a blog by Robin Fleischner, Attorney at Law. Robin Fleischner, Esq. became an adoption attorney in 1986 as an outgrowth of adopting her two sons. […]
Berkeley Law Students Peacefully Protest the “Gay Blood Ban”
On April 5, law students Taylor Horn, David Nahmias, and Tyler Wolfe tabled to raise awareness of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) discriminatory ‘Gay Blood Ban’ at Berkeley Law’s first annual blood drive. The law students at Berkeley wrote the letter featured below and circulated it to all the faculty, staff, and students at […]
Meet Tiffany Palmer, LGBT Bar Member and LGBT Family Law Institute Director
Tiffany Palmer is an experienced family law attorney with a deep dedication to LGBT equality. These qualities led to her appointment last summer as Director of the LGBT Family Law Institute, a joint venture of the National LGBT Bar Association and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Currently, in addition to volunteering as Director of […]
The LGBT Bar Launches Commit 2 Inclusion
The National LGBT Bar Association is proud to launch our Commit 2 Inclusion campaign this month. Beginning today, we are circulating a petition to law schools around the nation, asking the legal education community to support diversity and inclusion and reject hate groups. The campaign recognizes that the rise of hate groups in our […]
LGBT Bar Joins Marouf v. Azar as Organizational Plaintiff
Ryan H. Nelson, LGBT Bar Member
National LGBT Bar Association member Ryan H. Nelson views the legal profession as a means of preventing discrimination at its root. He is Corporate Counsel for Employment Law at MetLife and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School where he teaches Employment Law. “I chose to go into employment law to have […]