Ellie Vilendrer is an AV-rated attorney and Southern California Super Lawyer in ADR. Ellie is an active arbitrator, mediator, and neutral on panels including the Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals, the American Arbitration Association (AAA)'s Commercial, Technology, Healthcare, Employment, and Consumer Arbitration panels, National Arbitration and Mediation, the FINRA Arbitration Panel, and the mediation panels of the United States District Court, Central District of California, AAA, the Orange County Superior Court, and the Minnesota Dept of Human Rights.

With extensive experience working with healthcare, software, and technology companies, spanning from startups to publicly traded enterprises, Ellie has held pivotal roles such as outside general counsel, intellectual property counsel, and privacy counsel. She also holds the distinguished title of Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and is a co-author of the privacy law chapter in the Representing the Ongoing Business Deskbook, 3rd Edition. In 2014, Ellie co-founded a tech company that pioneered an Artificial Intelligence-powered platform that provided predictive insights for app features and marketing campaigns. Her journey into dispute resolution began with becoming an expert negotiator, achieving the highest value outcome in a scored negotiation among 60 professional negotiators from around the world in 2015.

Ellie holds appointed leadership positions within the ABA Dispute Resolution Section, as EDR Committee Co-Chair (2020-2024), Committee on Committee Development and Oversight (2023), and Mediation Week Co-Chair, recognized as the Best Program of the Year in 2022. Additionally, she is Vice Chair of the Orange County Bar Association Legislative Resolutions Committee and an appointed Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Outside of her legal career, Ellie's family has produced award-winning short films. "Nurturing the Seeds of Peace," was broadcast at the United Nations in New York on November 6, 2019, and was also featured as an Official Selection at the International Peace & Film Festival in January 2020. Their short film on human rights, "Justice for All," was broadcast at the United Nations on December 15, 2020, in celebration of the UN's 75th anniversary.