Ellen is a senior counsel in the Corporate Department and a member of the Health Care Group. She assists clients in the health care, life sciences, sports and non-profit industries.
Ellen advises on complex health care regulatory matters, health privacy and data security issues, and health-related labor and employment matters. Her work with social services and charitable organizations particularly focuses on corporate governance matters. Ellen’s clients are diverse, spanning hospital systems, physician groups and other health care providers and associations, health technology companies, social services and charitable organizations, professional sports leagues, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, private equity firms, health plans, health management companies, and tissue banks and organ procurement organizations.
Ellen is accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a certified information privacy professional in the U.S. private sector. She has written and lectured widely on health care law, policy and ethics.
Before joining Proskauer, Ellen was an associate for law with The Hastings Center, a private, nonpartisan education and research institute that examines ethical and policy issues in medicine, health and the environment. She also has served as associate counsel to the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, a state law reform commission, where she helped to develop laws and regulations on care of the dying, organ transplantation and assisted reproduction.
Education
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Columbia Law School, J.D.
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Associate Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 1984-1986
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Princeton University, A.B.
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of the United States
Memberships
International Association of Privacy Professionals
Board of Directors, VNS Health
American Health Lawyers Association
Awards & Recognition
Best Lawyers in America 1999-2022, 2024-2025
New York Super Lawyers 2010-2022
Best of United States
Who’s Who of American Women
Who’s Who in America
“Top 50 Women,” New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2019
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