Ellie K. Vilendrer

Ellie Vilendrer is a creative problem-solver with a distinguished ability to optimize outcomes and build relationships.

She has extensive experience serving healthcare, software, and technology companies, ranging from start-up to publicly-traded, in roles including outside general counsel, intellectual property counsel, and privacy 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 (2020, Minnestoa CLE).

Ms. Vilendrer is Co-Chair of the Early Dispute Resolution Committee of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section. She is a Qualified Neutral, Rule 114 Minnesota General Rules of Practice, and serves as a FINRA Arbitrator as well as a mediator on several panels. Ellie Vilendrer is adept at understanding complex legal and financial issues and relationship dynamics to resolve high conflict. Demonstrating she can put theory to practice, Ms. Vilendrer achieved the best outcome in a scored negotiation among 60 professional negotiators from around the world in 2015. A diverse mediator, she draws from many years of experience as a successful civil and business litigator.

Her family’s award-winning short film promoting peace, Nurturing the Seeds of Peace, was broadcasted at the United Nations in New York on November 6, 2019, and was also an Official Selection featured at the International Peace & Film Festival in January 2020. Her family’s short film on human rights, Justice for All, was broadcasted at the United Nations on December 15, 2020, in celebration of the UN’s 75th anniversary.