Ellen A. Cirangle is a partner in Lubin Olson’s Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, and Securities service groups. Ms. Cirangle previously served as the firm’s managing partner and served as the head of the Litigation group for more than 12 years. She litigates in the areas of securities fraud, defamation, defense of class actions brought under California’s Unfair Business Practices Act, real estate, business and partnership disputes. Ms. Cirangle strives to work with each client to meet their needs, whether that be to aggressively negotiate a settlement or take a case through trial, and, if necessary, appeal.

Ms. Cirangle has extensive knowledge of securities trading, including short-selling. In a landmark decision, Ms. Cirangle successfully argued to the California Court of Appeal for the extension of California’s securities fraud statutes to brokers.  In another key ruling by the California Court of Appeal, Ms. Cirangle successfully defeated an anti-SLAPP motion brought by a stock manipulator who had published false information about a public company in order to drive down its stock price. 

Ms. Cirangle was selected by her peers for inclusion in the 2018-2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America© for her work in Securities Litigation. In addition, she has been honored by Thomson Reuters as a Northern California Super Lawyer® for the past 7 years.

Before joining Lubin Olson, Ms. Cirangle practiced with Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott in Denver. Ms. Cirangle served on trial teams with Fred Bartlit, who has been recognized as one of the top 10 trial lawyers in the world. Ms. Cirangle also worked at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel in Honolulu while her husband was serving as a physician in the Army at Tripler Army Medical Center. 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.