Slaughter Law Group’s founding partner, Lesa Slaughter has an international reputation for her
strategic, supportive, and forward-thinking legal advice when counselling clients creating their
family through gestational surrogacy, egg, sperm and embryo donation. Lesa’s own personal
journey of having children through gestational surrogacy, combined with her 15 years of practice
in the field of third-party reproduction and prior experience in the transactional and litigation arenas
ensures her clients are educated on the legal, practical, and emotional issues raised when forging a
pathway to parentage involving surrogacy, egg donation, embryo donation and sperm donation.
Since 2009, Lesa and her team at Slaughter Law Group have helped tens of thousands of intended
parents from all over the globe become mothers and fathers through third party reproduction, all
with expert legal counsel, compassion and a unique insight and understanding of the clients she
serves that few other attorneys in the field of third-party reproduction offer.
The go to expert in the rapidly changing landscape of assisted reproductive technology, Lesa has
been quoted in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and been a featured speaker on the
issue of gestational surrogacy in the United States and abroad, including Australia, Canada, Italy,
and Sweden. Licensed in California, she is a member of the Legal Professional Group
of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
