David Boies is an American lawyer

Lawyer

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 and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner

Boies, Schiller & Flexner

Boies, Schiller & Flexner L.L.P. is a prominent American law firm founded by David Boies and Jonathan D. Schiller in 1997. In 1999, they were joined by Donald L. Flexner, former partner with Crowell & Moring. In March of 2009, a 27-lawyer firm, located in Miami, named Zack Kosnitzky, merged into...

. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States

United States

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.

Early life and education

Boies was born in Sycamore, Illinois

Sycamore, Illinois

Sycamore is a city in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States. It has a commercial district based and centered on Illinois Route 64. The population was 17,519 at the 2010 census, up from 12,020 at the 2000 census.-Early settlement:...

, to two teachers. He has four siblings. His first job was when he was 10 years old—a paper route with 120 customers. Boies has dyslexia

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid...

 and he did not learn to read until the third grade. In 1954, the family moved to California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. Boies graduated from Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California

Fullerton, California

Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 135,161.It was founded in 1887 by George and Edward Amerige and named for George H. Fullerton, who secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...

. Boies attended the University of Redlands

University of Redlands

The University of Redlands is a private liberal arts and sciences university located in Redlands, California. The university's campus sits on near downtown Redlands. The university was founded in 1907 and was associated with the American Baptist Church. The land for the university was donated by...

, received a B.S. from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

 in 1964, a law degree magna cum laude from Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

 in 1966 and an LL.M.

Master of Laws

The Master of Laws is an advanced academic degree, pursued by those holding a professional law degree, and is commonly abbreviated LL.M. from its Latin name, Legum Magister. The University of Oxford names its taught masters of laws B.C.L...

 from New York University School of Law

New York University School of Law

The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....

 1967; he was awarded an hononary LL.D. from the University of Redlands in 2000. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the National Constitution Center

National Constitution Center

The National Constitution Center is an organization that seeks to expand awareness and understanding of the United States Constitution and operates a museum to advance those purposes....

 in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the U.S. Constitution.

Law firm

Boies was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is a prominent American law firm based in New York City, with an additional office in London. The second oldest firm in the country, Cravath was founded in 1819 and consistently ranks first among the world's most prestigious law firms according to a survey of partners,...

, where he started upon law school graduation in 1966 and became a partner in 1973. He left Cravath in 1997 after a major client objected to his representation of the New York Yankees even though the firm itself had found no conflict. He left the firm within 48 hours of being informed of the client's objection and created his own firm, now known as Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. It is currently rated 17th in "overall prestige" and 12th among New York law firms by Vault.com, a website on legal career information.

Government

Boies was also Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Antitrust Subcommittee in 1978, and served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in 1979.

Academia

Boies has taught courses at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 Law School and Cardozo School of Law.

Notable cases

• At Cravath, Boies assisted top litigator Thomas D. Barr
  Thomas D. Barr
  Thomas Delbert Barr was a prominent lawyer at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1953 and Yale Law School, and served as an officer in the Marine Corps...
  
   in defending IBM
  IBM
  International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
  
   in the 13-year antitrust cases brought by the Justice Department
  United States Department of Justice
  The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...
  
   and many private competitors.
• Also at Cravath, he represented the Justice Department in the United States v. Microsoft
  United States v. Microsoft
  United States v. Microsoft was a set of civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Section 1 and 2 on May 8, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states. Joel I. Klein was the lead prosecutor...
  
  case. Boies won a "victory" at trial, and the verdict was upheld on appeal. The appellate court overturned the relief ordered (breakup of the company) back to the trial court for further proceedings. Thereafter, the George W. Bush administration settled the case. Bill Gates
  Bill Gates
  William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
  
   said Boies was "out to destroy Microsoft." In 2001, the Washington Monthly called Boies "a brilliant trial lawyer", "a latter-day Clarence Darrow
  Clarence Darrow
  Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T...
  
  ," and "a mad genius" for his work on the Microsoft case.
• Boies represented New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
  
   owner George Steinbrenner
  George Steinbrenner
  George Michael Steinbrenner III was an American businessman who was the principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. During Steinbrenner's 37-year ownership from 1973 to his death in July 2010, the longest in club history, the Yankees earned seven World Series...
  
   in a suit against Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
  . This involved an action against all the teams. The Atlanta Braves
  Atlanta Braves
  The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....
  
   were owned by Time Warner
  Time Warner
  Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
  
  , a longtime Cravath client, who objected to his representation of the Yankees.
• He defended CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
   in the action brought by General William Westmoreland. The general abandoned his case during the trial.
• Following the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he represented Vice President Al Gore
  Al Gore
  Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....
  
   in Bush v. Gore
  Bush v. Gore
  Bush v. Gore, , is the landmark United States Supreme Court decision on December 12, 2000, that effectively resolved the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush. Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v...
  
  .
• Boies defended Napster
  Napster
  Napster is an online music store and a Best Buy company. It was originally founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet service that emphasized sharing audio files that were typically digitally encoded music as MP3 format files...
  
   when the company was sued by the RIAA for facilitating copyright infringement.
• In November 2003, he represented Andrew Fastow
  Andrew Fastow
  Andrew Stuart Fastow was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation that was based in Houston, Texas until the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his and the company's conduct in 2001...
  
  , deposed Chief Financial Officer of Enron
  Enron
  Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
  
  .
• Boies was retained by the SCO Group
  SCO Group
  TSG Group, Inc. is a software company formerly called The SCO Group, Caldera Systems, and Caldera International. After acquiring the Santa Cruz Operation's Server Software and Services divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, the company changed its focus to UNIX...
  
  , during the SCO-Linux controversies
  SCO-Linux controversies
  The SCO-Linux controversies are a series of legal and public disputes between the software company SCO Group and various Linux vendors and users. The SCO Group alleges that its license agreements with IBM means that source code that IBM wrote and donated to be incorporated into Linux was added in...
  
  , in their pursuit of alleged infringement of their rights to the Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
   intellectual properties
  Intellectual property
  Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
  
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• In 2006, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. negotiated a major settlement with The American International Group on behalf of its client, C. V. Starr, a firm controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of A.I.G.
• Boies negotiated on behalf of American Express two of the highest civil antitrust settlements ever for an individual company: $2.25 billion from Visa, and $1.8 billion from MasterCard.
• Boies is representing filmmaker Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
   regarding a Treasury Department investigation into Moore's trip to Cuba while filming for Sicko
  Sicko
  Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S...
  
  .
• On June 24, 2009, following the California Supreme Court ruling on Strauss v. Horton, Boies joined former Solicitor General Theodore Olson
  Theodore Olson
  Theodore Bevry Olson is a former United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004 under President George W. Bush.- Early life :...
  
  , the opposing attorney in Bush v. Gore, in the lawsuit Perry v. Schwarzenegger
  Perry v. Schwarzenegger
  Perry v. Schwarzenegger is a federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California challenging the federal constitutionality of Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot initiative that amended the California Constitution to restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples,...
  
  seeking to overturn the state of California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  's Proposition 8
  California Proposition 8 (2008)
  Proposition 8 was a ballot proposition and constitutional amendment passed in the November 2008 state elections...
  
   ban on gay marriage. In August 2010, the trial judge ruled in their clients' favor.
• Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP assisted the government in obtaining a $155 Million settlement from Medco Health Solutions related to a qui tam
  Qui tam
  In common law, a writ of qui tam is a writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed...
  
   complaint which alleged that Medco, "systematically and intentionally switched patients' prescriptions in an effort to increase the market share for certain pharmaceutical manufacturers, and thereby increased hidden rebate payments it received from pharmaceutical manufacturers." In response to the settlement, Mr. Boies said, "I am very happy that lawyers from Boies, Schiller & Flexner were able to contribute to the litigation and settlement of this qui tam case, which will result in important changes in the way pharmacy managers do business by increasing their level of accountability to their patients. We are also very happy we could help the government recover the money it was erroneously billed by Medco, and that Medco agreed to execute a Corporate Integrity Agreement which will govern their conduct in the future."
• On August 20, 2009 the Golden Gate Yacht Club
  Golden Gate Yacht Club
  The Golden Gate Yacht Club is a yacht club founded in 1939 and is the current holder of the America's Cup won by its racing team BMW Oracle Racing.In 1939 the first members built a clubhouse on a barge in the San Francisco Marina...
  
   announced that he had been retained in their ongoing dispute with Société Nautique de Genève
  Société Nautique de Genève
  The Société Nautique de Genève is a yacht club based in Geneva . It was founded in 1872 with the goal of developing nautical sports and high level sailors...
  
   regarding the 33rd America's Cup.
• In March, 2010, David Boies joined the team of attorneys representing Jamie McCourt
  Jamie McCourt
  Jamie McCourt is the former CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team-Early life:Jamie McCourt was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Jewish parents. Her father, Jack Luskin, ran the Luskin's chain of appliance stores in Maryland. As a 17-year-old freshman at Georgetown University, she met...
  
   in her divorce from Los Angeles Dodgers
  Los Angeles Dodgers
  The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
  
   owner Frank McCourt
  Frank McCourt (executive)
  Frank McCourt is the owner and chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine. In , he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation...
  
  .
• Boies is part of the legal team representing the National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   in their antitrust litigation, Brady v. NFL.
• Boies represented the National Basketball Players Association
  National Basketball Players Association
  The National Basketball Players Association is a trade association that represents basketball players in the National Basketball Association . It was previously a labor union before dissolving during the 2011 NBA lockout. It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major...
  
   during the 2011 NBA lockout
  2011 NBA lockout
  The 2011 NBA lockout is the fourth lockout in the history of the National Basketball Association . The owners began the work stoppage at 12:01 am EDT on July 1, 2011. The main issues dividing the owners and the players are revenue sharing and the structure of the salary cap...
  
  . He joined sides with Jeffrey Kessler
  Jeffrey L. Kessler
  Jeffrey L. Kessler is currently the Global Litigation Chair at the international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf where he is also the co-chair of the Sports Litigation Practice Group and serves on the firm's Executive and Leadership Committees...
  
  , who opposed Boies as a representative for the players in the 2011 NFL lockout
  2011 NFL lockout
  The 2011 National Football League lockout was a lockout that lasted from March 11 to July 25. It occurred primarily during the offseason for 18 weeks and 4 days...
  
  .

Personal life

Boies owns a home in Westchester County, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, a vineyard in Northern California, an oceangoing yacht, and a large wine collection.

Boies was portrayed by actor Ed Begley, Jr.

Ed Begley, Jr.

Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television series St...

 in the 2008 film Recount

Recount (film)

Recount is a 2008 made-for-TV film about the 2000 Presidential election in the United States. The political drama was written by Danny Strong, directed by Jay Roach, and produced by Kevin Spacey, who also stars in the film....

.

Philanthropy

• Professorial chairs:
  • $1.5 million to the Tulane University Law School
    Tulane University Law School
    Tulane University Law School is the law school of Tulane University. It is located on Tulane's Uptown campus in New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1847, it is the 12th oldest law school in the United States....
    
     to establish the "David Boies Distinguished Chair in Law." Two of Boies' children earned their law degrees at Tulane.
  • A "David Boies Professor" was established at the University of Pennsylvania
    University of Pennsylvania
    The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
    
     and is currently held by Professor of History Sheldon Hackney. The professorship is named after David Boies' father, a high school teacher of government and economics.
  • A "David Boies Chair" at the Yale Law School was formerly held by Professor Robert Post before he became dean of the law school.
  • David and Mary Boies endowed a chair in government at the University of Redlands, the college that David Boies attended. Arthur Svenson currently holds this chair.
  • Mary and David Boies also endowed a "Maurice Greenberg Chair" at the Yale Law School.
• David Boies and his wife, Mary, donated $5 Million to Northern Westchester Hospital, in Mount Kisco, New York
  Mount Kisco, New York
  Mount Kisco is a community that is both a village and a town in Westchester County, New York, United States. The Town of Mount Kisco is coterminous with the village. The population was 10,877 at the 2010 census.- History :...
  
  . Part of an ongoing capital campaign, the Boies' money is being used to build the hospital's new emergency room.

David and Mary Boies also fund the "Mary and David Boies Fellowships" for foreign students at the Harvard Kennedy School. The Boies give an annual picnic at their home for the incoming Teach for America corps for New York City (300-500 people). They support the Central European and Eurasian Law Institute (CEELI), a Prague-based institute that trains judges from newly democratized countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. There is a "Mary and David Boies Reading Room" at the CEELI Institute in Prague.

Quotes

• "Never in a thousand years could I have predicted such a large recovery. Mr. Boies has to be the Tiger Woods
  Tiger Woods
  Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer whose achievements to date rank him among the most successful golfers of all time. Formerly the World No...
  
   of the legal profession."

--fellow lawyer Fred Furth on the Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Sotheby's is the world's fourth oldest auction house in continuous operation.-History:The oldest auction house in operation is the Stockholms Auktionsverk founded in 1674, the second oldest is Göteborgs Auktionsverk founded in 1681 and third oldest being founded in 1731, all Swedish...

 and Christie's

Christie's

Christie's is an art business and a fine arts auction house.- History :The official company literature states that founder James Christie conducted the first sale in London, England, on 5 December 1766, and the earliest auction catalogue the company retains is from December 1766...

 price fixing

Price fixing

Price fixing is an agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand...

 class-action lawsuit.

• "Few lawyers today can rival Boies' string of major triumphs... Boies' strengths include an encyclopedic mastery of the facts of a case and a chess player's sense of predicting a course of action." Cary Reich, New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986
• "[Maxwell] Blecher ["one of California's savviest and most experienced litigators"] was flabbergasted that this young kid knocked him out of the box, really in the first round, " said litigator and partner Thomas D. Barr to the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986
• "The one talent of David's that stands out is his ability to lay out a course of action that would take into account any sort of complicated facts and develop a far-reaching scenario. It's a chess player's sense: If I do this, the following 15 things are going to happen, and if step 11 goes so, I'll do this rather than that. It's a fantastic game-playing ability." Thomas D. Barr, quoted in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986
• "No lawyer in America has tried and argued on appeal as many landmark cases in as many different areas as Mr. Boies." Citation in Milton Gould Award for Outstanding Advocacy, October 1996
• "In court and out, he speaks a brand of English so simple and direct that he sounds like the high school teacher he once thought he would become." Time Magazine, "Get me Boies!" by Daniel Okrent, December 25, 2000
• "The Boies memory is one of the first things cited when people discuss his strengths. What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure." Time Magazine, "Get me Boies!" by Daniel Okrent, December 25, 2000
• "David is the best lawyer I have ever seen, bar none... No question, David Boies is hard-wired different than everybody else. His brain works different. I was there at the counsel's table when he argued Bush v. Gore, I have seen other things he's done. He's just different. He's not human, in a very real way. He's capable of keeping track of five different things in a way that most very, very good lawyers could keep track of one of them... When it comes to a lawyer-lawyer, David Boies is far and away (the best)." Tom Goldstein
  Tom Goldstein
  Thomas C. Goldstein is an American attorney famous as an advocate before and blogger about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin...
  
  , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a law firm founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1945 by Robert Strauss and Richard Gump. The firm now numbers more than 800 attorneys and advisers in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia...
  
  

Awards and honors

• Time Magazine named Boies "Lawyer of the Year" in 2000. Boies was a runner-up to George W. Bush
  George W. Bush
  George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
  
   as "Person of the Year."
• Milton Gould Award for Outstanding Advocacy, October 1996
• Lifetime Achievement Award from LD Access Foundation, October 2001
• Outstanding Learning Disabled Achievers Award from the Lab School in Washington, DC
• William Brennan, Jr. Award from the University of Virginia School of Law, 2002
• Pinnacle Award, International Dyslexia Association, November 2005
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Honorary Doctorate of Laws, New York Law School, 2007
• Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Criticism

In his 2001 book, prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent Bugliosi is an American attorney and author, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson and other defendants accused of the Tate-LaBianca murders. His most recent books are Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy , The Prosecution of George W...

 criticized Boies' abilities as a trial lawyer, arguing that Boies "wasn't forceful or eloquent at all in making his points" in Bush v. Gore. "[A]lthough he seemed to have a very good grasp of the facts, he seemed completely incapable of drawing powerful, irresistible inferences from those facts that painted his opposition into a corner".

Cites

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Articles

• Cover Story, Forbes Magazine: "David Boies Takes on Eliot Spitzer in the Fight over AIG", by Daniel Fisher, Carrie Coolidge and Neil Weinberg, May 9, 2005
• Cover Story, New York Magazine: "The Trials of David Boies Why one Superlawyer has a Hand in Virtually All the High-profile cases of the Day. And How Bush v. Gore became the One that Got Away" by Chris Smith, February 26, 2001
• Cover Story, New York Times Sunday Magazine, "David Boies: The Wall Street Lawyer Everyone Wants" by Cary Reich, June 1, 1986
• Newsweek Magazine: "Microsoft's Tormentor How an affable trial lawyer with an understated canniness is driving Gates & Co. to the wall", March 1, 1999
• Vanity Fair "1999 Hall of Fame" December 1999
• The Financial Observer: "The Golden Boies", by Renee Kaplan, September 18, 2000
• Vanity Fair: "The Man who ate Microsoft" by David Margolick, March 2000
• The National Law Journal: "Lawyer of the Year", January 3, 2000
• Esquire Magazine: "What Does $750 an Hour Get You? A week in the datebook of David Boies" by Andrew Chaikivsky, May 2003
• Vanity Fair: excerpt from David Boies book "Courting Justice" September 2004
• Anna Schneider-Mayerson. The Boies Family: Super-lawyer David Boies has been the go-to guy for legions of powerful people and institutions, including Al Gore, George Steinbrenner and CBS. Plus he's friends with both his ex-wives. New York Observer (Dec. 18, 2006)http://www.observer.com/printpage.asp?iid=13856&ic=Special+News+Story+3
• David Olive. Betrayal catches Black by surprise. Toronto Star (Nov. 24, 2003)http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1069629008346

Books

• Courting Justice: From New York Yankees vs. Major League Baseball to Bush vs. Gore, 1997-2000 (Miramax Books, 2004) ISBN 0-7868-6838-4
• v. Goliath: The Trials of David Boies, by Karen Donovan (Pantheon, 2005) ISBN 0-375-42113-0

External links

• Biography from Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP