January 29, 2010
DAVID P. MIRANDA NAMED SECRETARY OF NEW YORK STATE
BAR ASSOCIATION
Miranda assumes office on June 1, 2010
NEW YORK—The New York State Bar Association announced today
that David P. Miranda, a partner of the Albany law firm Heslin
Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C., has been named Secretary of the
77,000-member organization. Miranda was elected at the 133rd Annual
Meeting by the House of Delegates, the organization’s decision and
policy-making body. He will take office on June 1, 2010.
Miranda, a resident of Voorheesville, received his undergraduate from
the State University of New York at Buffalo and earned his law degree
from Albany Law School.
Miranda is an experienced trial attorney whose intellectual property
law practice includes trademark, copyright, trade secret, false
advertising, and patent infringement, as well as licensing, and
Internet-related issues.
Miranda has been a member of the State Bar’s Executive
Committee since 2006, serving as a member-at-large. He served as chair
of the Young Lawyers Section in 2002-2003 and as the Section’s
delegate to the American Bar Association from 1998 to 2000. He also
chaired the Electronic Communications Committee from 2000 to 2006 and is
a member of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, the Committee
on Continuing Legal Education and the Committee on the Annual Award. He
is a past member of the Task Force on E-Filing and the Special Committee
on Cyberspace Law.
Miranda is the immediate past president of the Albany County Bar
Association. In 2009, he served on the Independent Judicial Election
Qualification Commission for the Third Judicial District of the State of
New York. Hon. Judith Kaye, retired Chief Judge of the State of New
York, appointed him to the New York State Commission on Public Access to
Court Records in 2002.
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.
Founded in 1876, the 77,000-member New York State Bar Association is
the official statewide organization of lawyers in New York and the
largest voluntary state bar association in the nation. The State
Bar’s programs and activities have continuously served the public
and improved the justice system for more than 130 years.
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