The DOJ was initially represented by David Boies.

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

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

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

Bill Gates said Boies was " out to destroy Microsoft.

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

* Boies was retained by the SCO Group, during the SCO-Linux controversies, in their pursuit of alleged infringement of their rights to the Unix intellectual properties.

* 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 ).

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

** A " David Boies Chair " at the Yale Law School was formerly held by Professor Robert Post before he became dean of the law school.

Boies was a runner-up to George W. Bush as " Person of the Year.

In March 2012, Clooney was featured with Martin Sheen and Brad Pitt in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, ' 8 ' — a staged reenactment of the federal trial that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as attorney David Boies.

The first voice messaging application, the Speech Filing System ( later renamed Audio Distribution System ( ADS ) was developed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1973 under the leadership of Stephen Boies, who worked on the modern day voice-mail or voice messaging.

His brothers were Boies Penrose and Spencer Penrose -- Spencer was also active in mining.

He came in last in the three-man race, behind second place finisher Gifford Pinchot, who was later a Republican Governor and ran on the Progressive Party line, and incumbent Republican Boies Penrose.

The current resort was built in 1918 by Spencer Penrose, a Philadelphia entrepreneur whose brother was Senator Boies Penrose.

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.

Only once, in 1889, did Democrats elect a governor, Horace Boies who was reelected in 1891.

David Boies believed it was an honest Microsoft Attorney mistake, but avoidable nevertheless.

* 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.

* 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.

" 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.

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.

* 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 Times Sunday Magazine, " David Boies: The Wall Street Lawyer Everyone Wants " by Cary Reich, June 1, 1986

* The Financial Observer: " The Golden Boies ", by Renee Kaplan, September 18, 2000

A week in the datebook of David Boies " by Andrew Chaikivsky, May 2003

* v. Goliath: The Trials of David Boies, by Karen Donovan ( Pantheon, 2005 ) ISBN 0-375-42113-0

#" Speech Filing System Reference Manual ", 1975, by J. W. Schoonard and S. J. Boies, IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598.

#" 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.

Formed in Quebec City by brothers Jean-Christophe and Jean-Sébastien Boies, Projet Orange played a britpop-like, catchy and flowing sound.

In 1892, Boies ran a distant third in the presidential nominating contest at a Democratic National Convention handily dominated by former ( and future ) president Grover Cleveland.

" — 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.

* 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 )

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.

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

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

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.