David Boies ( born March 11, 1941 ) is an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

* Boies is part of the legal team representing the National Football League in their antitrust litigation, Brady v. NFL.

** A " David Boies Professor " was established at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently held by Professor of History and Sociology Thomas Sugrue.

The professorship is named after David Boies ' father, a high school teacher of government and economics.

Part of an ongoing capital campaign, the Boies ' money is being used to build the hospital's new emergency room.

There is a " Mary and David Boies Reading Room " at the CEELI Institute in Prague.

*" 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.

*" David is the best lawyer I have ever seen, bar none ... No question, David Boies is hard-wired different than everybody else.

When it comes to a lawyer-lawyer, David Boies is far and away ( the best ).

Lee Scott Wolosky ( July 17, 1968 –) is a Partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and a former Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council at the White House under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.

He is the Boies Professor of United States History at the University of Pennsylvania.

* In March, 2010, David Boies joined the team of attorneys representing Jamie McCourt in her divorce from Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt.

* David Boies, Attorney, famous for representing the Justice Department in United States v. Microsoft and Al Gore in Bush v. Gore

Boies was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he started upon law school graduation in 1966 and became a partner in 1973.

* At Cravath, Boies assisted top litigator Thomas D. Barr in defending IBM in the 13-year antitrust cases brought by the Justice Department and many private competitors.

Going into the convention, the two leading candidates for the nomination were former Congressman Bland, who had originated the Bland-Allison Act, and former Iowa Governor Horace Boies, with Bland considered the frontrunner.

However, he put his elbow through the canvas while showing it to his guests, including the screenwriter Nora Ephron and her husband Nick Pileggi, the broadcaster Barbara Walters, the art dealer Serge Sorokko and his wife, the model Tatiana Sorokko, the New York socialite Louise Grunwald and the lawyer David Boies and his wife, Mary.

Former Iowa Governor Horace Boies was a major contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1896.

David Boies speaking about the United States v. Microsoft | Microsoft antitrust case at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

" In 2001, the Washington Monthly called Boies " a brilliant trial lawyer ", " a latter-day Clarence Darrow ," and " a mad genius " for his work on the Microsoft case.

* Boies defended Napster when the company was sued by the RIAA for facilitating copyright infringement.

* 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.

He joined sides with Jeffrey Kessler, who opposed Boies as a representative for the players in the 2011 NFL lockout.

* 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 ).

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 ).

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.

Theodore Olson, a Washington, D. C. lawyer and future Solicitor General, delivered Bush's oral argument and New York lawyer David Boies argued for Gore.

SCO retained Boies Schiller & Flexner for this, and related subsequent litigation.

#" Human Factors Challenges In Creating A Principal Support Office System — The Speech Filing System Approach ", by John D. Gould and Stephen J. Boies, IBM Tomas J. Watson Research Center, as quoted in a paper presented to the Association for Computer Machinery.

This practice was suspended only once, on May 27, 1919, when the Conference reaffirmed its commitment to the seniority system for choosing committee chairmen by electing Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania as Chairman of the Finance Committee over objections from Progressive Republican insurgents.

" — Boies Penrose's reply to a Republican Party reformer's accusation that Penrose was ruining the party's prospects for victory ( and the reformer's chances for dominance over the party's apparatus ) by putting up a slate of candidates who were stand-pat party hacks with no chance of winning.

The DOJ was initially represented by David Boies.

* 1860 – Boies Penrose, American politician ( d. 1921 )

* December 31 – Boies Penrose, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ( born 1860 )

* November 1 – Boies Penrose, United States Senator from Pennsylvania ( d. 1921 )

Both men had electoral problems: Bland at age 61 was seen by some as a man whose time had passed ; Boies was a former Republican who had once decried bimetallism.

Boies was born in Sycamore, Illinois, to two teachers, and raised in a farming community.

Boies has dyslexia and he did not learn to read until the third grade.

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

Boies attended the University of Redlands, received a B. S.

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.

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

Boies won a " victory " at trial, and the verdict was upheld on appeal.

Bill Gates said Boies was " out to destroy Microsoft.