David Boies

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David Boies
Born March 11, 1941
Marengo, Illinois
Occupation Attorney
Spouse Mary McInnis Boies

David Boies (born March 11, 1941) is a lawyer and Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner [1]. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States.

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[edit] Upbringing and Education

Both his parents were teachers and he was born in Marengo, Illinois as were three of his four siblings. His first job was when he was 10 years old - a paper route with 120 customers. Boies suffers from dyslexia and did not learn to read until the third grade.[2] In 1954 the family moved to California. Boies graduated from Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California. Boies attended the University of Redlands, and studied law at Northwestern and Yale universities. He received a B.S. from Northwestern in 1964, an LL.B. magna cum laude from Yale in 1966, an LL.M. from New York University 1967, and an LL.D. from the University of Redlands in 2000.

[edit] Personal life

He has been married three times. He married his first wife - his high school sweetheart - just prior to enrolling at Redlands. While at Redlands he also taught journalism at a local mental hospital. He was the president of the campus Young Republicans. While studying law at Northwestern he conducted an affair with the wife of one of his professors, leading to his banishment from the campus. The woman later became his second wife. He met his third wife Mary McInnis - a lawyer - while she was on the White House staff in the late '70s. Boies was then on a sabbatical from Cravath while working with the US Senate Antitrust Subcommittee. He had been divorced from his second wife for over five years. They have between them two children. One of Boies's sons is also named David.

Boies has his home at Westchester County, New York, a restaurant building in Northern California, an oceangoing yacht and a large wine collection.[citation needed]

[edit] Professional History

[edit] Law Firm

Boies was a superstar attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore for many years. He left Cravath over a conflict of interests in 1997, regarding the Major League Baseball case (infra). He left the firm within 48 hours of being informed of the conflict and created his own firm, now known as Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Academia

Boies has taught courses at New York University Law School and Cardozo School of Law.

[edit] Case Highlights

[edit] Philanthropy

  • A professorial chair - the David Boies Professor - has been established at the University of Pennsylvania as well as at the University of Redlands, the college which Boies attended. The current holder of the professorship at Penn is Sheldon Hackney a professor of history. The chair is named after Boies' father.
  • David Boies and his wife, Mary, recently announced their intention to donate $5 Million to Northern Westchester Hospital, in Mount Kisco New York. Part of an ongoing capital campaign, the Boies' money will be used to renovate the hospital's emergency room facilities.[3]

[edit] Quotes

  • "Never in a thousand years could I have predicted such a large recovery. Mr. Boies has to be the Tiger Woods of the legal profession."
--fellow lawyer Fred Furth on the Sotheby's and Christie's price fixing class-action lawsuit.[4]

[edit] Recent Headlines

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP recently assisted the government in obtaining a $155 Million settlement from Medco Health Solutions related to a qui tam 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."[5] 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."[6]

According to the New York Times, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. recently 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. [7]

[edit] Awards & Honors

Time Magazine named Boies "Lawyer of the Year" in 2000.[8] This was as runner-up to George W. Bush as "Man of the Year."

[edit] Criticism

In his 2001 book, prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi 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".[9]

[edit] References

[edit] Cites

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[edit] Articles

  • 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)[1]
  • David Olive. Betrayal catches Black by surprise. Toronto Star (Nov. 24, 2003)[2]

[edit] 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
Persondata
NAME Boies, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Attorney
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Marengo, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH