Los Angeles (UWLA) School of Law. Originally from Latvia, Maya began her career studying medicine at the Medical Academy in Latvia with aspirations of becoming a cardiac surgeon. After immigrating to the United States, she earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College in 1995, and her Juris Doctor from UWLA School of Law in 1999, balancing her studies with raising a newborn and working as a paralegal.

Following graduation, she worked as a law associate in employment litigation before founding Shulman Family Law Group, where she specializes in family and family formation law, including divorce, custody, adoptions, surrogacy, and assisted reproductive technologies.Returning to her alma mater as a professor, Maya teaches California’s first law school elective on “Surrogacy and Adoption,” uniquely combining her medical background with legal expertise. Her daughter, also a doctor and member of the American Medical Women’s Association alongside Maya, continues the family’s tradition of professional excellence while raising her own child.