ACARAL Member Directory

Sanford M. Benardo

President (2009-2010)

New York; Massachusetts

www.assistedfertility.com

sbenardo@assistedfertility.com

Sanford M. Benardo has represented intended parents, gestational carriers, traditional carriers, egg donors, donor egg recipients, donor egg facilities, hospitals, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, and birth parents as part of his broad-based fertility law practice.

Theresa M. Erickson

Media Relations Director (2009-2010)

California; Iowa

www.EricksonLaw.net

terickson@ericksonlaw.net

Theresa M. Erickson is one of the few attorneys in the United States who specializes exclusively in the area of Family Formation Law.

Milena O'Hara

Membership Director (2009-2010)

California

www.meyersohara.com

info@meyersohara.com

Milena O'Hara is a California attorney who joined Lori Meyers on surrogacy and egg donation arrangements in 1997. Milena feels that organized planning and structure is the basis for a stress-free arrangement.

Jean M. Cavaliere

Jean has provided legal counsel to birth parents, adoptive parents and adoption agencies in over 300 adoption cases. She has handled private, agency and interstate domestic adoptions, as well as step-parent adoptions and international re-adoptions.

Herbert D. Friedman

Herb is an adoptive parent and Harvard Law School graduate with a diverse civil litigation background. He now limits his practice to the area of adoption and ART law which he has practiced for more than 25 years. He is fluent in Spanish. For more background, see his website or email him.

Mark Goldman

Mark Goldman is the founder of AdoptHelp Law Center, a full service adoption law firm located in Sherman Oaks, California, and AdoptHelp, Inc., a national birth mother advertising and outreach program.

Michael B. Grant

Rhode Island; Massachusetts

mbgesq@aol.com

Michael B. Grant graduated from Providence College earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and graduated from Suffolk University School of Law located in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of Rhode Island and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Lori Meyers

Lori Meyers is a California attorney with 13 years experience in third party reproductive law.

Hilary Neiman

The National Adoption and Surrogacy Center was established by attorney Hilary Neiman to help clients create or build their families through surrogacy and adoption. We work with heterosexual couples, non-traditional families, and singles both in the United States and around the world.

Adam Sklar

New Jersey; New York; Florida; District of Columbia

www.sklaroffice.com

adam@sklaroffice.com

Adam Sklar assists individuals and couples seeking to create or expand their families. Clients appreciate and compliment his knowledge of the issues, work ethic, and prompt response via phone and email. His practice is exclusively limited to adoption and reproduction law. In his spare time, Adam is a participant in the State of New Jersey's adoption program whereby he assists families adopting through the State with their adoption finalizations.