Melissa Brisman graduated Valedictorian from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. She is an attorney admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and is a licensed certified public accountant.

Melissa Brisman first started helping couples become parents of miracle babies in 1996. Actually, she was her own first client, guiding and directing the process in which she and her husband Dan, became parents of twin boys carried by a gestational carrier. A few years later, they had a daughter carried by another gestational carrier.

As a mother, Melissa is uniquely qualified. She understands the emotion and concern involved in creating a family and is a pioneer and recognized leader in the field. As a lawyer, she has helped hundreds of parents have miracle babies protecting their legal rights while using all available reproductive technologies.

Melissa is the first attorney to ever obtain orders allowing the genetic parents to go directly on the birth certificate for gestational carrier arrangements in the States of Maine and New Jersey. She argued and won a landmark gestational carrier case before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts and the State Supreme Court of New York, setting legal precedents for birth orders in those states.

She was the first attorney ever to place two women on the birth certificate of their child, without an adoption, in the State of New Jersey; and to place two men on the birth certificate of their children, born through a gestational carrier, without an adoption, in the State of Pennslyvania.

She has been a keynote speaker for the New Jersey Society for Reproductive Nursing Specialists, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and is on the board of the American Fertility Association. She is a professional member of Resolve, Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy (OPTS) and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Melissa was the recipient of the 2004 Star of Resolve Award and is a chapter author of Reproductive Medicine Secrets by Zev Rosenwaks. Currently, Melissa is serving on the Advisory Board of Conceive Magazine. She is also the author of numerous articles on the subject of reproductive law.

Melissa drafts and negotiates contracts for many types of reproductive arrangements including gestational carrier contracts, ovum, sperm and embryo donation contracts; locates gestational carriers; matches couples with the gestational carrier of their choice; works with international couples and same sex gestational carrier arrangements; organizes home studies and background checks on the gestational carrier and her partner; coordinates medical & psychological aspects of reproductive arrangements; finalizes same sex and step parent adoptions; obtains court orders for gestational carrier arrangements to allow the intended parents to go directly on the birth certificate of their child at birth; processes name changes; provides escrow account services and handles insurance appeals.