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Joyce Creidy
Intellectual Property Section Chair
Joyce L. Creidy of
Brooklyn (Thomson
CompuMark) has been elected Chair of the
Intellectual Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association
(NYSBA).
Creidy earned her law degree from the
Fordham University School of Law and an M.B.A. from New York University
School of Business.
Creidy is an Account Manager
with Thomson CompuMark, which caters to the need
of intellectual property professionals. Previously, she ran her own
intellectual property law practice for six years and was an associate at
Elhilow & Maiochhi. Creidy is also Chief Operations Officer and General Counsel of
Freeman’s Retail Department Store in New York
City, a position she has
held since 1995.
A veteran member of the
Intellectual Property Section, Creidy is a member of its Executive
Committee, the Internet Law Committee and the Nominating Committee. She
created the annual Women in IP program. Now in its
sixth year, it brings together women attorneys who are at firms,
in-house, in government, at non-profits, white, Latina, of color, Asian,
of varying sexual orientations, all ages and stages of their careers,
married women, single women, women with children, women without
children, full-time, and part-time.
The 74,000 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. Founded in 1876,
NYSBA programs and activities have continuously served the public and
improved the justice system for more than 130 years.
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