Lila M. Seif, Attorney & Founder

Lila M. Seif is the founder and principal attorney of New Family Fertility Law, a professional corporation. Her practice is dedicated exclusively to fertility law and related matters. Lila first became involved in fertility law in 2005 and the work has inspired her professionally and personally ever since. She pursued a law career specifically to help form new families and has been doing so as an attorney since 2015. She assists clients from diverse backgrounds, both domestically and internationally. She has expertise in egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation, and all aspects of surrogacy law, including drafting, negotiating, and finalizing contracts, establishing legal parentage, and pertinent medical insurance matters. She has represented Intended Parents in over 500 surrogacy matters spanning the globe and has handled hundreds of gamete donation matters as well.

Lila serves on the Board of the Legal Professionals Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), is a member of the American Bar Association Assisted Reproductive Technologies Committee, and is a member of the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS). She regularly attends fertility law conferences nationally and internationally and presents on panels addressing best practices, ethics, and the latest advances in the field.  

Lila obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her Juris Doctorate from Southwestern Law School. Lila sees it as her responsibility and honor to provide expert legal representation to gestational carriers, donors, and intended parents, with the goal of helping couples and individuals realize their dream of a family.