Michelle is a Canadian lawyer whose practice, Flowerday Fertility Law, focuses on fertility law (covering surrogacy laws and third party reproduction laws) and family law. As a fertility and surrogacy lawyer based in Toronto, Michelle is a passionate and tireless champion for couples facing infertility, for gay and lesbian couples wanting to start a family, for single people looking to grow a family alone, and for surrogate mothers and egg, sperm, and embryo donors assisting in the process. Michelle’s expertise includes negotiating and drafting agreements related to surrogacy, co-parenting, egg, sperm, and embryo donations, making court applications for declarations of parentage, step-parent adoptions, and other legal issues related to third party reproduction. Michelle works in the greater Toronto area, across Canada and internationally with intended parents and surrogate mothers, and egg, sperm, and embryo donors. She speaks at conferences on the topic of fertility and surrogacy law and has provided legal advice to fertility clinics and hospitals on contract laws and compliance with Canadian assisted human reproduction laws and regulations.