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Attorney Profiles

ELLEN W. STIEFLER

Since 1983, Ellen Stiefler has protected the rights of individuals and businesses in a wide range of fields including entertainment, the media, Internet and technology, e-commerce, and consumer businesses. Ellen offers much more than the typical lawyer. She delivers sound legal counsel and in-depth expertise in intellectual property law,

Ellen has appeared regularly on television and is a published author and much sought-after speaker on the subjects of Protecting your Intellectual Property and Protecting yourself from Identity Theft.

• legal and business advice;
• reliability and responsiveness;
• dedication to her clients’ needs;
• excellent listening and interpersonal skills;
• emphasis on "win-win" results;
• negotiating skill derived from being “soft on the people and hard on the problem”
• resourcefulness and tenacity in solving problems;
• lots of good, old-fashioned hard work.

Ellen draws on a unique background of experience from which it is easy to understand why so many of her clients are in technology, business and the creative arts.

As a child, Ellen was a violinist in the pre-college division of the Juilliard School. After graduating from the Brearley School in New York City, she received a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University. At Duke, Ellen received the equivalent of an MBA while still an undergraduate (her major course of study later became the curriculum of Duke's Business School).

After college, Ellen studied copyright law with the U.S. Copyright Office's Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, and was an Editor of the Inter-American Law Review at the University of Miami School of Law, from which she received her law degree in 1983.

Rounding out her education, Ellen studied international and comparative law at Oxford University in England, and the art of negotiation, mediation and alternative dispute resolution at Harvard Law School.

Ellen is also well-respected for the quality and depth of her community service. She has served on the boards of directors of Kids Korps USA and Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine for 10 years each and the advisory boards of many other civic and charitable organizations.

Ellen is admitted to the practice of the law in New York and California.

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Ellen pictured with her sons, Zack, 20, a junior at Duke University; Tim, 18, a freshman at Trinity College; Robby, 14, a high school freshman at The Bishop's School, and her fiancé, Rand.