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Statement
A recent survey of NYSBA members
reveals that members are seeking a centralized location online
for legal research, news and content in their substantive
areas of practice. We are seeing more attorneys transitioning
from general practioners to specialists in a particular field.
As a result, the NYSBA's substantive Sections are becoming
increasingly important to our members. The NYSBA's web site
and other services should focus increasingly on turning our
Sections into legal "communities" where focused, current,
legal content can be provided to members and information and
ideas can be exchanged simply between members.
As we move forward, technology should be used to bring our
geographically diverse members together more often and with
greater ease. As technology and bandwidth improve, virtual
meetings of members should become more common. Over the next
two to five years the NYSBA should move forward in providing
the technological infrastructure necessary for members
throughout the state to "meet" online for live interactive
meetings where members can be seen and heard, documents
exchanged and revised, and issues addressed and resolved. A
pilot teleconferencing program should be implemented joining
the Bar Center in Albany with the Western and Southern
portions of the State for live CLE programs, Section and
Committee meetings, and programs such as the one we are
attending today.
Biography
David P. Miranda
is an attorney with Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesti P.C. of
Albany, the largest intellectual property law firm in upstate
New York. His practice focuses on litigation of patent,
trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters with particular
emphasis on Internet related issues. He commenced 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. Mr. Miranda received his Juris Doctor
degree from Albany Law School and Bachelor's degree from the
State University of New York at Buffalo. He is admitted to
practice in New York, U.S. District Courts
for New York's Northern and Western Districts and
Massachusetts, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the
U.S. Supreme Court.
Bar Association Activities:
American Bar Association: Member, ABA House of Delegates
(1998-2000); Intellectual Property Law Section, Chair,
Subcommittee on Trademarks and the Internet (1997-2002);
New York State Bar Association:
Member, NYSBA House of Delegates (1998-2000, 2001-present);
Chair, Electronic Communications Task Force (2000- present);
Chair-elect, Young Lawyers Section;
Albany County Bar Association:
Member, Board of Directors (2000-present); Chair Technology
Committee (1995-present).
Publications:
Editor-in-chief and contributing author: Internet Guide for
New York
Lawyers NYSBA, 1999.
Author: Defamation in Cyberspace: Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v.
Prodigy Services Co., Albany Law
Journal of Science & Technology, 1996
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