Ellen Tobin is an Associate in the Firm’s Litigation Department, representing individuals and businesses in federal and state courts and arbitration.  Ellen’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, including contract and real estate disputes, accounting and securities fraud, bankruptcy litigation and antitrust, maritime and intellectual property matters. 

 

Prior to joining the Firm, Ellen worked in the Manhattan office of a prominent international law firm, where she represented clients in complex commercial cases, government investigations in federal and state courts,  arbitrations and in matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.  Ellen also served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable A. Kathleen Tomlinson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. 

 

Ellen has done extensive pro bono work, including advocating for children and indigent parents in family court disputes on behalf of the Children’s Law Center and the Brooklyn Family Defense Practice.  She has also done pro bono work for the Queens County District Attorney’s Office, authoring an appellate brief and successfully arguing a criminal appeal before the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department.

 

Ellen received her Juris Doctor degree in 2005 from the University of Pennsylvania.  In 2001 Ellen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated magna cum laude and with Distinction in International Relations. 

 

Ellen is admitted to practice law in New York State, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.