1. David Boies is an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
35 Facts About David Boies
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David Boies was born in Sycamore, Illinois, to two teachers, and raised in a farming community.
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David Boies has dyslexia and he did not learn to read until the third grade.
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Journalist Malcolm Gladwell has described the unique processes of reading and learning David Boies experienced due to his dyslexia.
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David Boies' mother, for instance, would read stories to him when he was a child and David Boies would memorize them because he could not follow the words on the page.
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David Boies graduated from Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California.
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David Boies is on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the US Constitution.
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David Boies left Cravath in 1997 when a major client objected to his representation of the New York Yankees even though the firm itself had found no conflict.
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From 1984 to 1985, Boies defended CBS in the libel suit Westmoreland v CBS, but after dragging on for two years, the case was dropped.
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In Jay Roach's Recount, which focuses on the case, David Boies is played by Ed Begley Jr.
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In 2000 David Boies lost the first important file-sharing case which ultimately put Napster into bankruptcy.
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In 2001 Boies represented the Justice Department in the United States v Microsoft Corp.
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David Boies won a victory at trial, and the verdict was upheld on appeal.
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In 2014, on behalf of Mr Greenberg, David Boies brought a claim that the government's $85 billion bailout of AIG had been unfair to the company's owners.
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David Boies charged Greenberg more than $50 million in legal fees.
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In 2008 David 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.
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In 2009, following the California Supreme Court ruling on Strauss v Horton, Boies joined former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the opposing attorney in Bush v Gore, in the lawsuit Perry v Brown seeking to overturn the state of California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage.
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In March 2010, David Boies joined the team of attorneys representing Jamie McCourt in her divorce from Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt.
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In 2011 David Boies represented filmmaker Michael Moore regarding a Treasury Department investigation into Moore's trip to Cuba while filming for Sicko.
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David Boies represented the National Basketball Players Association during the 2011 NBA lockout.
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David Boies joined sides with Jeffrey Kessler, who opposed Boies as a representative for the players in the 2011 NFL lockout.
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David Boies was the lead counsel for Oracle Corporation in its lawsuit against Google on the use of Java programming language technology in the Android operating system.
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In 2011, David Boies began working as legal representation for the now defunct blood testing company, Theranos.
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In February 2016, David Boies agreed to both sit on the board of directors and act as the attorney for troubled Silicon Valley startup.
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In 2012, David Boies represented three tobacco companies, Philip Morris USA Inc.
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Later in 2012 David Boies defended Gary Jackson, former president of Academi, in a federal prosecution which alleged he and his co-defendants illegally hid firearm purchases from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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In 2015, David Boies represented Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein in renegotiating the Weinsteins' employment contract.
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In 2017, David Boies agreed to join the legal team for Lawrence Lessig's legal fight against winner-take-all Electoral College vote allocations in the states.
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Since 2019, David Boies represents several of Jeffrey Epstein's victims including Virginia Roberts Giuffre.
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David Boies' firm was representing The New York Times at the same time.
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David Boies was on the Theranos board of directors, raising questions about conflicts of interest.
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David Boies agreed to be paid for his firm's work in Theranos stock, which he expected to grow dramatically in value.
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David Boies eventually left the Theranos board of directors, after the US federal government had initiated multiple investigations into the firm.
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David Boies owns a home in Westchester County, New York, Hawk and Horse Vineyards in Northern California, an oceangoing yacht, and a large wine collection.
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David Boies is frequently described as having a photographic memory that enables him to recite exact text, page numbers, and legal exhibits.