ellen
W. Stiefler
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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, but beyond that, she
offers smart, savvy business advice and a rare human element
that allows her to achieve unexpectedly good results, time and
time again.
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.
Ellen is known for
giving her clients:
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legal and business acumen;
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reliability and responsiveness;
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dedication to her clients’ needs;
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excellent listening and interpersonal
skills;
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emphasis on "win-win" results;
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negotiating
skill derived from being “soft
on the people and hard on the problem”;
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resourcefulness and tenacity in solving
problems;
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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 receiving a Bachelor of Science degree
from Duke
University. At Duke, Ellen received the
functional equivalent of a Masters in Business Administration -
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
negotiations and alternative dispute resolution at
Harvard
Law School from Roger Fisher, author of Getting to Yes.
Ellen is also well-respected for the quality and depth of
her community service. She currently serves on the boards of
directors of
Kids Korps USA
and Scripps Center
for Integrative Medicine
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.
Ellen Stiefler with her
three sons, Tim, Zack and Robby
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