Ellie Vilendrer is an arbitrator and mediator with Signature Resolution. She also serves on the American Arbitration Association’s Commercial, Technology, Healthcare, and Employment Arbitration panels. Ellie is the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution and a board member of the California Dispute Resolution Council.
Throughout her eighteen-year career, Ellie has built a diverse practice grounded in business litigation, representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial disputes. She has also represented employees in wage and hour and discrimination lawsuits, and for over a decade advised private and public medical technology companies as outside general counsel and intellectual property counsel. In addition, Ellie has worked with survivors of sexual abuse in high-stakes litigation, both as a neutral and as an advocate, bringing trauma-informed sensitivity and skill to emotionally charged disputes.
She holds the distinguished titles of Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT), 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 providing predictive insights for app features and marketing campaigns.
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.
