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

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.

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

" Two of Boies ' children earned their law degrees at Tulane.

** 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.

** David and Mary Boies endowed a chair in government at the University of Redlands, the college that David Boies attended.

** Mary and David Boies also endowed a " Maurice Greenberg Chair " at the Yale Law School.

David and Mary Boies also fund the " Mary and David Boies Fellowships " for foreign students at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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

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.

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.

Boies Penrose, who had defeated Pinchot in the general election of 1914, died at the end of 1921, and Governor Sproul had appointed lecturer and Republican National Committeeman George Pepper to the seat.

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.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

" 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.

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

: SCO retains lawyer David Boies, announcing that they would be investigating infringement on their intellectual property pertaining to their ownership of UNIX.

Boies owns a home in Westchester County, New York, a vineyard in Northern California, an oceangoing yacht, and a large wine collection.

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

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.

" 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.

* Boies is representing filmmaker Michael Moore regarding a Treasury Department investigation into Moore's trip to Cuba while filming for Sicko.

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 ).

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.

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

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.

*" No lawyer in America has tried and argued on appeal as many landmark cases in as many different areas as Mr. Boies.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner headquarters in Armonk, New York

* Boies represented New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a suit against Major League Baseball.

* David Boies and his wife, Mary, donated $ 5 Million to Northern Westchester Hospital, in Mount Kisco, New York.

* Cover Story, New York Magazine: " The Trials of David Boies Why one Superlawyer has a Hand in Virtually All the High-profile cases of the Day.

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

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.