Ellen W. McVeigh is an attorney working primarily with small business and nonprofit organizations in the areas of corporate and employment law. After her admission to practice in Minnesota in 1982, she was a law clerk at the Minnesota Supreme Court, then joined the Corporate Department at the Gray Plant Mooty law firm, where she became a partner. She left that firm to become director of operations for a small business with revenues of approximately $2,000,000 per year. She began her own law practice in 1992. She and Eve Borenstein merged their law practices in 2004, to form Borenstein and McVeigh Law Office, LLC. Ms. McVeigh is also a frequent public speaker on corporate, nonprofit and employment topics, and has lectured for or presented seminars sponsored by Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants, Headwaters Fund, Minnesota Continuing Legal Education, University of St. Thomas Center for Nonprofit Management and Hamline University Graduate School of Public Administration and Management. She conducts training sessions for nonprofit boards on topics related to management and legal responsibilities. Ms. McVeigh's community work includes membership on several nonprofit boards of directors. She also serves as a commissioner on the three-member Civil Service Commission for the City of Minneapolis. Prior to attending law school, Ms. McVeigh earned an M.A. degree in English at the University of Minnesota, and completed coursework toward a Ph.D. in American Studies. She also spent a year baking breads and pastries at the New French Café.