Miranda Li

Miranda has a broad practice in complex commercial litigation and appeals, representing a range of clients – including internet, digital media and technology companies, as well as prominent law firms and government officials – in high-stakes disputes raising novel questions of law. Miranda has served as a strategic advisor across the life cycle of litigation, from pre-litigation consulting through trial, with a sensitivity to ultimate business objectives and an eye toward preserving victory on appeal. She has briefed dispositive motions in cases at every level of the federal judicial system, involving diverse issues ranging from First Amendment, due process and separation-of-powers claims to claims of fraud, securities violations and antitrust liability.

Miranda’s representative matters include:

Appeals

• Representing a Federal Reserve Board governor in a US Supreme Court case raising constitutional challenges to her purported removal from office
• Representing a digital imaging technology company in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, seeking to overturn a trial verdict in a securities fraud case
• Representing gun control nonprofit organizations in an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of 18 USC § 922(g) subsection
• Representing several nonprofit organizations in amicus briefs in federal Courts of Appeals

Commercial litigation

• Representing a prominent US law firm in a sweeping constitutional challenge (involving separation of powers and the First, Fifth and Sixth amendments) to an executive order issued in retaliation for protected First Amendment activity
• Representing a large technology company in affirmative litigation to combat fraudulent business listings and reviews, successfully securing settlement
• Representing a large technology company in defending against putative privacy class actions relating to the company’s analytics and advertising products
• Representing the world’s largest hardware technology company and certain of its officers in challenging a putative securities fraud class action
• Representing a large mortgage lender in a putative nationwide consumer class action alleging a Truth in Lending Act (TILA) violation in federal district court
• Representing former shareholders of an antibody drug company in a suit against an acquiring public company for failure to make milestone payments
• Representing former directors in a shareholder class action challenging acquisition in the Delaware Court of Chancery
• Representing a major cryptocurrency platform in navigating threats of mass arbitration
• Representing a major video game developer in a complex civil antitrust matter alleging tying and monopolization from complaint stage through a 16-day trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California*
• Conducting an internal investigation and preparing a presentation defending a major sports franchise in an investigation regarding alleged violation of league rules*
• Conducting an internal investigation for a large media conglomerate regarding allegations of a hostile and unprofessional workplace*

*Representation handled before joining Cooley

Miranda served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Richard Seeborg of the Northen District of California and Judge Stephen A. Higginson of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

In law school, Miranda was a Forum and features editor for the Yale Law Journal, a student director for the Supreme Court Advocacy Clinic, and a Coker Fellow. She also served as a board member for Yale Law Women and APALSA, a research assistant to Supreme Court of California Justice Goodwin Liu, and a teaching assistant in torts.

Before law school, Miranda worked as a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting and a research fellow at PILnet in Beijing.