Dana Eberle is an attorney at Church, Langdon, Lopp, Banet Law, where she oversees the family law practice area. She earned her bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington and her J.D. degree from University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Ms. Eberle is a member of Indiana State Bar Association, Kentucky Bar Association, and Floyd County Bar Association, and is also a Certified Family Law mediator in Indiana. She is chair of the Center's Southern Indiana Partnership Council. Ms. Eberle is licensed in Indiana and Kentucky.
Colleen M. Quinn Esq., of Quinn Law Centers, LLC, practices personal injury, medical malpractice, employment, family formation, including adoption and surrogacy, and estate planning law. She is admitted to the practice in all state and federal courts in Virginia. Ms. Quinn has been in practice for more than 34 years, having graduated from the University of Virginia (J.D. degree, 1988) and William & Mary (B.A. degree, 1985); and served as judicial clerk to the Honorable Harry L. Carrico, Chief Justice, Virginia Supreme Court in 1988-89. She is the winner of numerous awards and accolades, and has served on the boards of numerous organizations. Ms. Quinn was president of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, served on the Board of Trustees for eight years, and is the co-author of the last five editions of the
Adoption Procedures and Forms: A Guide for Virginia Lawyers (a Virginia CLE publication). She is the 2023 president-elect of the Virginia Law Foundation.
Deborah E. Spivack is owner of Law Offices of Deborah E. Spivack based in southern New Jersey. Her practice focuses exclusively on adoption and family planning in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Ms. Spivack has extensive experience representing adopting parents, birth parents, agencies and children (upon appointment by a court) in a broad range of adoption matters, including those which are private/independent, agency, identified, stepparent, second parent, guardian, legal custodian adoptions, or adoptions by individuals standing in loco parentis to the child, as well as adoptions of foreign-born children present in the United States. Many of these adoption cases have complex legal issues such as interstate placements, adoption subsidy, non-participating or contesting parties, international parties, immigration problems, Indian Child Welfare Act implications, state child protective services, and special needs or older children. also has extensive experience in assisted reproductive technology law matters. She frequently represents intended parents, gestational carriers, donors or donees of sperm, eggs, or embryos in drafting assisted reproductive technology agreements to protect their rights and in pursuing court orders explicitly recognizing parental status before and after the birth of a child to ensure legal permanency. Additionally, Ms. Spivack is a fellow of the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), a membership-by-invitation-only association of 470 attorneys, law professors, and judges in the United States and throughout the world who are recognized as having extensive experience in the practice of adoption law, ART law, or both. AAAA Fellows ascribe to a practice-specific code of ethics that fosters best practices in adoption and assisted reproductive technology law. She earned her B.S. degree, cum laude, in business from Pennsylvania State University and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Widener School of Law. Ms. Spivack is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
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