Daniel Miller is a partner whose legal career spans nearly 40 years. He is a generalist with experience and expertise in nearly every area of business law. His extensive practice includes real estate law, corporate/commercial law and conveyancing. Today, he focuses his practice on high technology and biotechnology law. He is technically adept and highly informed in computer technology and has involved himself in all the legal aspects of the computer industry, including the preparation of software, hardware and development agreements.

In the past years, Daniel has played a principal role in successful litigation by Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. against Canadian Commercial Corporation (a Crown corporation), with respect to a US$250,000,000 contract with the U.S. Government; as legal counsel to and a director of Comterm Inc., a manufacturer of intelligent terminals as well as one of the first manufacturers of portable computers; as legal counsel to and a director of Nova Molecular Inc.; the holder of various medical patents in the field of Alzheimer’s, and other CNS diseases; and as legal counsel to various McGill University research scientists.

Daniel's biotechnology practice is in the leading-edge fields of pharmacogenomics and proteomics, which examine the relationship of specific genes and proteins in the human genome and particular diseases and then works to develop medications for their treatment.

Daniel has served as an elected member of the municipal council of Ivry-sur-le-Lac for 25 years. He is President of Chevra Kadisha B'Nai Jacob Synagogue. He has served for many years on the board of the Festival des arts de Saint-Sauveur, as well as on the boards of many corporations. He is a Governor Emeritus of the Fondation du Barreau du Québec and has achieved Martindale-Hubbell’s highest ranking.

Daniel attended McGill University and completed his B.A. and then his B.C.L. in 1961. He became a partner in 1970 and was the Montréal firm's co-managing partner from 1977 to 1997.

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