Ellen Cirangle is an experienced commercial litigator with a highly successful track record litigating cases in federal and state courts, as well as before arbitration panels. Ms. Cirangle has litigated in the areas of securities fraud, real estate, partnership disputes and fiduciary matters.

Ms. Cirangle has obtained million-dollar-plus trial awards against leading brokerage firms before arbitration panels in three separate cases; successfully defended a fraud and rescission action concerning a commercial lease and obtaining full award of attorneys' fees for client; successfully tried an action for breach of a commercial lease agreement and obtained judgment for full amount requested and attorneys' fees; obtained at trial a reduction in commercial loan of approximately ten million dollars based upon claims of fraud and usury and obtaining a full defense verdict and a multi-million dollar award on a counterclaim in a breach of contract case before an arbitration panel. Ms. Cirangle has also negotiated multiple settlements on behalf of her clients.

Before joining Stein & Lubin in 2002, Ms. Cirangle practiced as a trial attorney at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott in Denver and Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel in Honolulu. Prior to that, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ann Aldrich in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Ms. Cirangle earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in psychology from American University. She earned her law degree, summa cum laude, from University of California Hastings College of the Law in 1992.