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Known by most as The Stork Lawyer®, Elizabeth Swire Falker (“Liz”) graduated from Wellesley College and The Benjamin B. Cardozo School of Law, where she earned a Jacob Burns Medal for scholastic achievement. After undergoing seven years of assisted reproductive technologies and adoption in an effort to create her own family, in 2004, with the publication of her first book, The Infertility Survival Handbook (Riverhead), she transitioned her career from commercial litigation to focus solely in the areas of reproductive and adoption law. Liz also owns an Egg Donor Advocacy Agency (The Stork Lawyer Connection™), and is co-owner of an escrow management agency which exclusively services the third-party assisted reproductive industry (The Stork Escrow Management Connection, Inc. ™). To critical acclaim, in 2006, Liz published her second book, The Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Adoption (Warner Books). She also has published two law review articles including, 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). Inspired by the success of her blog which has been listed by the American Bar Association among its directory of best legal blogs, Liz currently is finishing up the first part of an E-Book series demystifying third-party family building.