Recognized for excellence in practice, Ellie Vilendrer is a Southern California Super Lawyer, a Martindale Hubbell AV-rated attorney, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, and legal scholars whose membership is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction.
She has extensive experience serving healthcare, software, and technology companies, ranging from start-up to publicly traded, in roles including privacy counsel, intellectual property counsel, and outside general counsel. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and is co-author of the privacy law chapter in the Representing the Ongoing Business Deskbook, 3rd Edition (2019, Minnestoa CLE).
Ellie is Co-Chair of the Early Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section (2020-2023) and Co-Chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Section’s 2022 Mediation Week. She is an active arbitrator and mediator with a distinguished track record of optimizing outcomes: She achieved the highest value outcome in a scored negotiation among 60 professional negotiators from around the world in 2015; She also formerly co-founded an award-winning data science company that helped mobile application makers maximize profits by informing their most important business decisions.
Ellie Vilendrer has 10+ years of ADR experience. She believes the end goal for disputants shouldn’t just be to resolve their disputes, but to make decisions that lead to optimal outcomes. She helps parties think creatively, to expand the pie so every party can maximize settlement value.
Ms. Vilendrer uses a hybrid evaluative/facilitative model to mediate. She is committed to providing parties with a valuable mediation experience in which participants can communicate their view points in a safe and respectful environment. She understands the nuances and complexities which underpin disputes and has a genuine desire to help parties not only reach a lasting agreement, but also improve relationships.
J.D. from Brigham Young University 2007; attended UCLA School of Law as a visiting student from 2006-2007
B.S. in Business Administration, Emphasis in Corporate Finance from University of Southern California, 2004
Certified Information Privacy Professional/US
B.A. in French from USC, 2004
Certificate – Advanced Negotiation Masterclass from Harvard, 2015
Certificate – Power & Influence from Carlson School of Management, 2021
$2,000 for 2 parties ($1,000 each) for up to 4 hours of mediation. Preparation time is included in the fee. $450/hour (shared by the parties) after that.