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David P. Miranda
Member-at-Large
Albany attorney David P. Miranda (Heslin Rothenberg Farley &
Mesiti P.C.) has been elected to the Executive Committee of the New York
State Bar Association. He will serve as a member-at-large.
The 26-member Executive Committee oversees the management and
administration of the Association within policies determined by its
governing body, the House of Delegates.
Miranda is a partner at the firm concentrating on litigation of
intellectual property law matters and Internet-related legal issues. He
began some of the first domain name dispute proceedings before the World
Intellectual Property Organization and was counsel in one of the first
New York cases determining the enforceability of online agreements.
In 2002, Hon. Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of the state Court of Appeals,
appointed Miranda to the New York State Commission on Public Access to
Court Records. He received the Capital District Business Review’s
“40 Under Forty” Award for community involvement and
professional achievement in 2001. He was editor-in-chief and
contributing author of “The Internet Guide for New York
Lawyers” in 1999 and 2005, and is the author of “Defamation
in Cyberspace: Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co.,”
published by the Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology. He also
serves as an arbitrator of Intellectual Property disputes for the
National Arbitration Forum.
Miranda received his bachelor’s degree from the State
University of New York at Buffalo. He earned his J.D. from Albany Law
School.
Active in the Association, Miranda is the chair of the Task Force on
Electronic Communications. He is a past-chair of the Young Lawyers
Section, and was the Association representative to the American Bar
Association’s House of Delegates from 1998 to 2000. He also is a
member of the Association’s Task Force on E-Filing, the Committee
on Annual Award and the Special Committee on Cyberspace Law. He has made
presentations at numerous Association programs. Miranda also is a Fellow
of the New York Bar Foundation.
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