Why Work With a Law Firm to Build Your Family Through Adoption?

We get this question all the time.

Working with us is very different from working with an agency or facilitator. Agencies are bound by law to make the child their first priority, and in essence, the child is their client. Facilitators aren’t licensed by any state agency, so they don’t owe a duty to either the adopting parents or the birth parents.

When you work with a law firm, you are the client; your best interests are our first priority. In terms of outreach, our law offices have extensive resources to seek out birth parents across the state and country.

We receive birth parent referrals from social workers, doctors, clinics, hospitals, facilitators, psychologists, counselors, church groups, through internet resources, and many of our referrals come from our clients and past birth parents. We also receive referrals from other attorneys across the state and country through our membership in various exclusive adoption attorney organizations.

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About Megan Cohen, Adoption Attorney

(Attorney) is one of the only adoption attorneys in the country who is also a birth mother. Admitted to the bar in January 2010, Megan began working with Diane that same year and made partner by 2011. She took over the firm in 2013 and has since received Super Lawyers’ Northern California Rising Star award in 2013 and 2014. Megan graduated magna cum laude and first in her class from law school where she earned multiple awards for academic excellence. As a law student, she worked for three years as an advocate for victims of domestic violence. Prior to studying law, Megan was both a successful small business owner and a high school English teacher. Her passion for adoption began when she placed her son for adoption in 1988. She continues to have an open relationship with her adopted son and his parents, and has intimate knowledge of what it means to place a child, to choose the child’s parents, and to both stay connected and reunite with the adopting family.