About Liz

Elizabeth Swire Falker, Esq., PLLC

President and Founder

I am a graduate of Wellesley College and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. After spending over eight years establishing myself as a commercial litigator in New York City, I took a break from practicing law to focus on my infertility issues. While undergoing treatment for infertility I wrote and published the bestselling, “cult classic”, The Infertility Survival Handbook (Riverhead).

In 2004, after enduring six IUI cycles and seven IVF cycles, and countless miscarriages, and publishing my book, I opened my own law practice devoted to educating and supporting others as they face similar challenges building their family. As my private practice began to grow, I published a second book, The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Adoption (Warner). I never went back to practicing litigation as my own journey through infertility and writing led me to find a way to blend my skills as an attorney, as an advocate, and my passion to pay forward the gifts I had been given in my children to others. Now after more than twenty years as a reproductive lawyer I have helped well over Two Thousand families navigate their way through the complex waters of third-party assisted reproduction law.

Even before becoming a reproductive lawyer, I had an interest in the fields of health and reproduction. While in law school I wrote a Law Review Note on the medical, ethical and legal issues presented when treating marginally viable/23-week gestation births. After graduating law school, I published two law review articles. The first addressed the medical malpractice crisis in the field of obstetrics (The Medical Malpractice Crisis in Obstetrics: A Gestalt Approach to Reform, 4 Cardozo Women’s L.J. 1 (1997)), and later, I published an article addressing issues related to embryo donation (The Disposition of Cryopreserved Embryos: Why Embryo Adoption is an Inapposite Model For Application to Third Party Assisted Reproduction, 35 William Mitchell L.R. 489 (2009)). I continued to fuel my passion for writing and addressing “hot topics” in family building issues by maintaining an active and popular blog which was listed by the American Bar Association among its directory of best legal “blawgs.”

I regularly speak on panels on reproductive law, including teaching continuing legal education seminars. In fact, several years ago I was an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law teaching family building law to attorneys returning to the practice of law after taking time off. For information on my professional appearances, please visit my Media page. Among other organizations, I am a proud Fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, am a member of New York Attorneys for Adoption and Family Formation. I also am proud to say that I was among a handful of people present at the very first meeting of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Assisted Reproduction Law. There are now thousands of members of that Committee. I am a professional member of RESOLVE and The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). I am proud to provide pro bono and discounted legal services for Men Having Babies.

I have been licensed to practice law since 1994, and am admitted in the Appellate Division, First Department of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.