Jennifer is the founder and owner of the Law Office of Jennifer P. Maas, PLLC.  She is an attorney who has been practicing law in the State of New York for nearly twenty years, since her admission to the New York Bar in 2003.  

In 2017, Jennifer and her husband utilized IVF and embarked on their own journey to become the very proud parents of a little girl through a wonderful act of altruistic gestational surrogacy and the expertise of her reproductive team, after the trials and tribulations of infertility.  (You can read more about that experience on her blog.)

More recently, in 2023, she welcomed a son through surrogacy, after matching with a wonderful gestational carrier through an agency.

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Having been an Intended Parent herself, Jennifer knows the importance of having focused, compassionate, competent counsel to help Intended Parents, Gestational Surrogates, Donors and Recipients alike to navigate through the complex and rapidly evolving area of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and parentage law in New York to create and expand families.  With that passion and experience, Jennifer launched her boutique law firm, the Law Office of Jennifer P. Maas, PLLC, which is dedicated exclusively to ART and Adoption Law in New York.  

Jennifer graduated from St. John's University School of Law in 2002 where she was secretary of the Family Law Society, during which time she worked as a law clerk for a family law firm dealing with matrimonial, custody and adoption cases.  Prior to that, she obtained her B.A. in Sociology-Based Human Relations from Connecticut College in New London, CT in 1999, where she graduated with honors.

After obtaining her J.D., Jennifer worked for nine years as an attorney prosecuting child abuse and neglect cases on behalf of the NYC Administration for Children's Services, where she supervised the work of several attorneys.  Thereafter she worked in the Office of the Attorney General in their Family Services Division in Washington, D.C., continuing to litigate child abuse and neglect cases within the foster care system.  She then returned to New York where she worked as a trial attorney in the insurance industry for another nine years—litigating and presenting cases to juries in the Supreme Courts and Civil Courts in New York, until the launch of the Law Office of Jennifer P. Maas, PLLC, when she was able to follow her passion to help individuals involved in third-party reproduction in New York.

Jennifer knows that for many, the journey to form and expand families is a long one—teeming with emotion and stumbling blocks along the way.  Untangling the legal process should not be yet another roadblock for parties.  Let the Law Office of Jennifer P. Maas, PLLC be part of your team, to guide you through the process so that you can focus your efforts and attention on the excitement of achieving your goals. 

 

Jennifer is an Executive Board member of the Legal Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). She is an ART fellow of both the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA) and also New York Attorneys for Adoption and Family Formation (NYAAFF).  She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Assisted Reproduction Technology Committee, New York State Bar Association's Family Law and LGBTQ Sections, and the Family Law Institute of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and the Society for Ethics in Egg Donation and Surrogacy (SEEDS).