New York – November 7, 2024 -- Warshaw Burstein has been recognized as a 2025 Best Law Firm, Metropolitan Tier 1 in New York City in Family Law, by Best Lawyers in America.® 

Eighteen Warshaw Burstein lawyers have been named 2024 Super Lawyers in their respective practice areas in the New York Metro area.

Five Warshaw Burstein partners and a Counsel have been named to the prestigious peer reviewed Best Lawyers in America list for the New York area for 2025. The attorneys were recognized in a total of six different practice areas.

Warshaw Burstein, LLP today announced it has added several additional attorneys and the Family Law and Tax (Private Client) practice areas to its membership in IR Global, a multi-disciplinary professional services network that provides legal, accountancy, and financial advice to companies and individuals internationally.

Roon Fertility, a free online guide that helps families navigate the fertility journey, recently posted a host of videos of partner Alexis L. Cirel providing legal guidance on a number of related issues.

Alexis L. Cirel, founding partner of the Fertility Law Group and ART Fellow, Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, was quoted extensively on the legal issues related to family formation for LGBTQ+ people in "Ready to Expand Your Family? A Get-Started Guide for LGBTQ+ People." The article was published in "The Bump," a well-read online publication targeted to expectant parents and parents of younger children.

Happy Pride Month! The Family Law Practice at Warshaw Burstein is proud to provide comprehensive legal assistance to LGBTQ+ community individuals.

Partner Alexis Cirel co-hosted a panel at Sunningdale Country Club, along with RMA of New York.

Partner Alexis L. Cirel was a panelist on a seminar held as part of the American Bar Association's Family Law Spring CLE Conference in Boston on May 2nd.

Attorneys Listed in The New York Times

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 the firm’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.

Eighteen Warshaw Burstein lawyers have been named 2023 Super Lawyers in their respective practice areas in the New York Metro area.

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.

Sarah A. Steckler, Partner in the Trusts and Estates Group, and Leron Thumim, Counsel in the Litigation Group, have been named to the 2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch list.

Partner Alexis Cirel joined members of Reproductive Medicine Associates (RMA) 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 here: https://fertilitylaw.wbny.com

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.

Eighteen Warshaw Burstein lawyers were named 2022 Super Lawyers in their respective practice areas in the New York Metro area.

Eric I. Wrubel and Alexis Cirel Named Best Lawyers In America for the New York Area in 2023, Leron Thumim Named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch
 
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.

Warshaw Burstein, LLP is a proud sponsor of the Pace Women’s Justice Center Annual Spring Cocktails for a Cause Party on May 24, 2022.

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 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.

Fertility Law practice leader Alexis Cirel spoke to New York Women's Bar Association members about New York State's new compensated surrogacy law, the Child-Parent Security Act.

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.

Warshaw Burstein, LLP, a full-service law firm in New York City, today announced Alexis L. Cirel has joined the firm as a partner and launched the Fertility Law Group, which combines the talents of Ms. Cirel, and partner and Matrimonial Department chair, Eric Wrubel, to create a first-of-its-kind practice group in New York.

Alexis Cirel, New York Women's Bar Association, said, "It is almost impossible to believe that women with fertility issues must travel out-of-state to have a child through surrogacy. Surrogacy is a safe and regulated practice in many states that allows couples who cannot conceive on their own to bring a child into this world and start a family of their own. I support the Governor's proposal to help countless families by legalizing surrogacy in New York, and I thank him for not giving up on this important fight."