Ellie MacLean represents workers and low-income individuals in complex litigation matters involving discrimination and government accountability.

Ellie joins Handley Farah & Anderson from Mobilization for Justice’s Special Litigation Project, where she served as the Alan Mansfield Racial Justice Fellow. There, she litigated impact and class action cases, including representing a class of drivers in a lawsuit against the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission alleging unconstitutional targeting in undercover street hail enforcement operations.

She previously served as an attorney with the New York City Commission on Human Rights, where she enforced the NYC Human Rights Law through civil prosecution of employment, housing, and public accommodations matters. Prior to that, she worked with the Gender Equality Law Center and the National Women’s Law Center, assisting with litigation and policy initiatives addressing workplace justice and gender equality.

During law school at Northeastern University, Ellie was a student clinician in the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic under Professor Margaret Burnham, where she conducted research on racially motivated homicides during the Jim Crow era. She also assisted survivors of intimate partner violence through the Domestic Violence Institute and represented children in the welfare and foster systems as a student attorney.

She completed Northeastern’s six-year program, earning a B.A. with honors and a J.D., and was recognized on the Pro Bono Honor Roll, nominated for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s Adams Pro Bono Publico Award, and named a Thomas Campbell Scholar.

Ellie lives in the New York City metropolitan area and enjoys hiking, photography, and reading literary fiction.