DAVID BOIES is Chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP. The firm has offices in New York, Washington D.C., California, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and New Jersey. Mr. Boies served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Antitrust Subcommittee in 1978 and Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in1979. In 1991-1993 Mr. Boies was counsel to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in its litigation to recover losses for failed savings and loan associations, and in 1998-2000 Mr. Boies served as Special Trial Counsel for the United States Department of Justice in its antitrust suit against Microsoft. Mr. Boies also served as the lead counsel for former Vice-President Al Gore in connection with litigation relating to the 2000 election Florida vote count.
Mr. Boies is the author of numerous publications including Courting Justice, published by Miramax in 2004 and Public Control of Business, published by Little Brown in 1977. Mr. Boies has taught courses at New York University Law School and Cardozo Law School. Mr. Boies is the recipient of an LL.D. from the University of Redlands, the Milton Gould Award for Outstanding Oral Advocacy, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the LD Access Foundation, the Outstanding Learning Disabled Achievers Award from the Lab School of Washington, and the William Brennan Award from the University of Virginia. When Mr. Boies received the Milton Gould Award in 1996 the citation said in part, “No lawyer in America has tried and argued on appeal as many landmark cases in as many
different areas as Mr. Boies.”