Attorney Amy Wallas Fox joined the firm in 2007 and handles adoption and surrogacy cases. In addition to handling independent, stepparent, agency and co-parent adoptions, she also handles most of the firm’s state agency (DFCS) adoption finalizations as well as adult adoptions. Amy is a leader in our firm’s recruitment of gestational carriers and works on a wide range of assisted reproductive technologies matters such as surrogacy, egg and sperm donation and embryo donation. Amy also handles uncontested guardianships.
Amy’s involvement and memberships include the GCAL – Georgia Council of Adoption Lawyers, and GAWL, the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. She also volunteers her time as a lawyer for Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation One Child One Lawyer Program, where she represents children in deprivation cases in the Fulton County Juvenile Court. Amy has served as a speaker at The National Infertility Association, RESOLVE conferences and meetings several times and she organized the firm’s participation in RESOLVE’s Walk of Hope event in Atlanta in 2010 and 2011.
During law school, she gained experience in adoption and surrogacy law as well as child advocacy. Amy worked with an adoption attorney in Richmond, Virginia. That experience familiarized her with the private practice of adoption and surrogacy law. Amy also attended the 2005 and 2006 mid-year conferences of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys as the first law student ever to participate. She also enrolled in the first week-long adoption law class held at Capital University Law School in 2006. In a related area, Amy served as a child advocate attorney, spending a summer at the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she represented children in dependency proceedings.
Amy received her bachelor’s degree in 2004 from Guilford College, with majors in philosophy and international studies and a minor in Japanese. As an undergraduate, she spent a semester near Osaka, Japan. Afterward, Amy received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the College of William & Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law, where she graduated in May 2007. During law school, she was a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team and was active in the Child Advocacy Law Society.