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Richard Vaughn Esq. @richvaughnesq fb linkedin

Attorney Richard B. Vaughn has combined his legal background with his passion and pride in forming his own family through surrogacy and egg donation to help form International Fertility Law Group (IFLG). As an IFLG partner, Rich provides legal services nationwide and internationally to others who want to build their families through assisted reproduction.

Rich first studied reproductive and fertility law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law in the early 1990s. Since 1993, practicing in both Chicago and Los Angeles, Rich has assisted innumerable individual, corporate and municipal clients with contract, business, marketing, litigation, and corporate legal needs. He brings this multi-disciplinary experience to his work assisting clients worldwide with family formation through assisted reproduction.

Rich is on the Board of Directors of the American Fertility Association, the Executive Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Family Law Section Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology, the California Bar Association (CBA) and its Family Law Section, and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Legal Professionals Group. In addition: he has been published in the American Journal of Family Law; he has lectured at numerous legal and family-building conferences around the U.S.; he has guest lectured at California Western School of Law; and he has been featured as a fertility law expert on National Public Radio (The Diane Rehm Show), Parenting Magazine Live, and other radio shows.

Rich's extracurricular pursuits are tied to advocacy for the LGBT community and to the medical, health and wellness industries. He is also an experienced fitness instructor, triathlete, a former paramedic, and board member of a medical device company. Rich and his spouse, Tommy Woelfel, were married in California in 2008 and are the proud parents, through egg donation and surrogacy, of twin boys Aiden & Austin.