Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP

David Boies is presently the Chairman and founder of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP. He is one of the nation’s most sought-after trial lawyers for his sensational victories in some of the most high-profile lawsuits in history, including his representation of Al Gore in the 2000 President election litigation and his victorious handling of the United State’s antitrust suit against software giant Microsoft.

For being a lawyer par excellence, he was named “Lawyer of the Year,” by the National Law Journal; runner-up to George Bush for “Person of the Year,” by Time Magazine in 2000; “Commercial Litigator of the Year” by Who’s Who; and “The Antitrust Lawyer of the Year,” by the New York Bar Association.

David Boies began a successful career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1966 until 1973 during which he assisted in the successful defense of IBM against the Justice Department’s antitrust suits. Eventually, he left Cravath and founded his own firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP in 1997.

Where David Boies goes, headlines follow. Other high-profile cases he handled involved a suit against Major League Baseball, his defense of CBS against General William Westmoreland, and his representation on behalf of Napster in a copyright infringement suit lodged by the RIAA. He was responsible the defense of American Express which resulted to the two highest antitrust settlements to date: $2.25 billion from Visa and $1.8 billion from MasterCard. He is currently representing controversial filmmaker Michael Moore in relation to an investigation into the latter’s trip to Cuba while filming Sicko.

David Boies obtained his B.S. from Northwestern University in 1964, graduated with a L.L.B. magna cum laude from Yale Law School in 1966 and a L.L.M. from New York University Law School. He has taught courses at Cardozo School of Law and New York University Law School. He is also philanthropist, donating $5 million to Northern Westchester Hospital and $1.5 million to the Tulane University Law School, among others.