David Boies on Charlie Rose tonight, , 11:40 CT. I don't know

[babylonsister]

if he's first or last, but FYI.

[ruggerson]

1. gracias!

[babylonsister]

2. It was good, as was the whole thing,

De nada! :hug:

[bluedawg12]

4. He cited Loving v. Virginia and anothe case from Wisconsin

where sofflaw fathers were denied by law from marrying if they were too far in arears in payment.
The Court held that marriage was a fundamental right and could not be taken away.

This guy is a heavy hitter.

[bluedawg12]

3. It was quite good. The case is based on the EPC and due process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies

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 Law School and Cardozo School of Law.


Notable cases
At Cravath, Boies assisted top litigator Thomas Barr in defending IBM in the 13-year antitrust cases brought by the Justice Department and many private competitors. Years later, he famously took the "other side" by representing the Justice Department in the United States v. Microsoft case. Boies won at trial and the verdict was upheld on appeal. The appellate court remanded 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 said Boies was "out to destroy Microsoft."<4>

Boies represented New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a suit against Major League Baseball. This involved an action against all the teams. The Atlanta Braves were owned by Time Warner, a longtime Cravath client. He defended CBS 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 in Bush v. Gore.<4> Boies defended Napster when the company was sued by the RIAA for facilitating copyright infringement. In November 2003, he represented Andrew Fastow, deposed Chief Financial Officer of Enron. Boies has been retained by the SCO Group in their pursuit of alleged infringement of their rights to the UNIX intellectual properties.

He 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.<5> Other cases in which he has been involved include: Pennzoil and Texaco; and the half-billion-dollar settlement of a suit brought by his art-buyer clients against the world's two leading art-auction companies, Sotheby's and Christie's; he is also representing Conrad Black (Lord Black of Crossharbour) regarding the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission probes of Hollinger International's disclosure of $32 million (U.S.) in unauthorized payments to Black, fellow executives, and parent company Hollinger Inc.; other current clients include Tyco International Ltd., and Qwest Communications International Inc. Boies is currently representing filmmaker Michael Moore regarding a Treasury Department investigation into Moore's trip to Cuba while filming for Sicko.


Philanthropy
Professorial chairs:
$1.5 million to the Tulane University Law School to establish the "David Boies Distinguished Chair in Law." Two of Boies's children earned their law degrees at Tulane.<6>
A "David Boies Professor" was established at the University of Pennsylvania 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 is currently held by Professor Robert Post.
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. Part of an ongoing capital campaign, the Boies' money is being used to build the hospital's new emergency room. <7>
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, 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 Prague Institute.


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.<8>
"Few lawyers today can rival Boies's string of major triumphs... Boies's 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
" 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

Recent headlines
David Boies negotiated on behalf of American Express one of the largest antitrust settlements ever for an individual company: $2.25 billion from Visa and $1.8 billion from Master Card.

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."<9> 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."<10>

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. <11>

Boies was portrayed by actor Ed Begley, Jr. in the 2008 film Recount.

Boies currently (as of October 16, 2008) represents Wachovia in ongoing litigation between Citigroup and Wells Fargo over the issue of which will buy Wachovia.

Following the California Supreme Court ruling on Strauss v. Horton, Boies joined with former adversary Theodore Olson from Bush v. Gore to combat Proposition 8 in federal court.<12>