Attorney Robert (“Bob”) Nichols is the proud parent of three children who were conceived through the assistance of an egg donor and a gestational surrogate. Bob graduated from Cornell University in 1987 and received his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1993. He has been specializing in reproductive law since 1999, when he began matching intended parents with egg donors and gestational carriers, as well as providing legal services. In 2007, those services expanded into the formation of the Center For Surrogacy and Egg Donation, Inc., of which Attorney Nichols is the founder and president. Attorney Nichols is a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and has been a faculty presenter for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education on Reproductive Technology and Adoption Law. He has also been a speaker at Resolve of New England (now AllPaths Family Building) conferences. Attorney Nichols has extensive experience representing intended parents, surrogates and egg donors in the drafting and negotiation of gestational carrier and egg donor agreements. He also assists intended parents in obtaining parentage orders declaring their parental rights to their child being carried by a gestational carrier. He obtained a pre-birth order for a same-sex couple in Massachusetts that resulted in the first original birth certificate with two men listed as the parents. Together with Attorney DeLisle, Attorney Nichols advocated on behalf of the families of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in front of the Joint Judiciary Committee resulting in the passage of the Massachusetts Parentage Act.

Attorney DeLisle graduated from Boston College in 1991 and received her Juris Doctor from New England Law Boston in 1997. Kathleen has more than 23 years experience in reproductive law, representing intended parents, both domestic and international, surrogates, and donors. Attorney DeLisle also has extensive experience establishing the intended parents’ legal parentage by petitioning the courts for parentage orders. Attorney DeLisle also has more than 30 years experience in the field of adoption law. Prior to joining the firm, Kathleen was an Assistant Regional Counsel for the Department of Social Services (now Department of Children and Families), where she handled hundreds of adoptions over her 7-year tenure. She was a recipient of a Performance Recognition Award for Outstanding Service to the Children and Families of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as nominated by her clients, peers and supervisors. Attorney DeLisle is licensed in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Attorney DeLisle is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), where she has served as a member of their Legislative and Continuing Legal Education Committees. Attorney DeLisle was one of the founding members of the Massachusetts Parentage Coalition which successfully lobbied the Massachusetts legislature to pass the Massachusetts Parentage Act, first-of-its-kind legislation defining the rights of parents and children resulting from assisted reproductive technologies. She is a member of the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont Bar Associations and is regularly asked to speak on legal issues with assisted reproductive technologies for various groups, organizations and conferences. Kathleen is also a contributing author to the 2018 edition of Adoption and Reproductive Technology Law in Massachusetts. More recently, Attorney DeLisle was named one of Massachusetts Top Women of the Law for 2021. Kathleen lives in Groveland, Massachusetts with her husband, 2 daughters and black labrador. When not traveling the globe, she spends time in her garden and cheering on her daughters as they race down the slopes.

Attorney Lightholder graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1998, and received her Juris Doctor from Western New England University School of Law in 2001. Leslie began her legal career serving as a Judicial Law Clerk for both the Massachusetts Juvenile Court and Probate and Family Court, and also served as an Assistant Clerk in the Connecticut Superior Court. Since 2006, Attorney Lightholder’s practice has been focused solely in the area of assisted reproductive law. Leslie is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Over the last 20 years, Leslie has had extensive experience representing intended parents and surrogates with drafting and negotiating gestational carrier agreements and genetic surrogacy agreements. Leslie routinely obtains Pre-Birth Parentage Orders and co-parent adoptions for clients in both the Massachusetts Probate & Family and Connecticut Probate Courts. Leslie’s practice has included representing international intended parents, collaborating with international attorneys in her clients’ home countries to assist in establishing their legal rights as parents both in the U.S. and abroad. Leslie also has many years of experience assisting parents with insurance coverage for a surrogate pregnancy. Leslie is a contributing author to the 2018 edition of the MCLE (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education) book: Adoption and Reproductive Technology Law in Massachusetts. In 2020, Leslie served as a consultant to the legislative team responsible for drafting the Connecticut Parentage Act, a comprehensive law governing family formation enacted in 2022. Leslie’s attention to detail and deep understanding and appreciation of the human elements involved are what separate Leslie from her peers. Outside of the office, Leslie enjoys spending time with her friends and family which includes her three teenage children.

Amanda received her BS in Political Science and her BA in Criminal Justice from Pace University in 2012, her Juris Doctorate from Roger Williams University in 2014, and her Masters in Criminal Justice in 2015. Amanda’s legal career began in New York and New Jersey, focusing on criminal defense and family law, with a focus on those with mental health and substance abuse issues. In 2018, Amanda began working in the assisted reproductive technology field, at Circle Surrogacy in Boston. Amanda assisted thousands of intended parents with their journey to parenthood. Amanda has drafted and negotiated thousands of gestational surrogacy agreements and egg donation agreements. Amanda has represented clients in obtaining Pre-Birth Parentage Orders in both New Jersey and Massachusetts and worked with attorneys throughout the world, to ensure that every parent’s parentage was secured and they would have a smooth transition to parenthood. Amanda has significant experience of assisting clients all over the world, having worked with clients all across the United States and in various countries, such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Japan, China, Norway, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, and Mexico. In January 2025, Amanda joined the Law Firm. Amanda is licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. In her free time, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband and their family, their dogs, cooking, baking, gardening, volunteering, and traveling.