David Boies

HollywoodNews.com: Last night at The Paley Center for Media legal powerhouses David Boies and Ted Olson spoke out against the MPAA’s R rating of the documentary film BULLY, at a special screening. In front of a high-profile audience including cohost Meryl Streep and legendary activist Billie Jean King, Boies stated, “How ridiculous and unfair and damaging it is to have a film of this power and importance that is being censored by a rating system that has got simply no rational basis. You can...Read Full Story

TweetImage via Wikipedia Play VideoOct. 4 (Bloomberg) -- David Boies, chairman of Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, talks about the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against American Express Co. American Express vowed to fight the lawsuit while Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. reached a settlement with the government. AmEx is hiring Boies to handle its defense. Boies talks with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg)David Boies, chairman of Boies Schiller...Read Full Story

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A high-profile attorney who represented former Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election recount has made a surprise bid to lead the mammoth U.S. legal cases tied to the Gulf oil spill.David Boies, a New York litigator, is entering a crowded field of plaintiffs' lawyers also angling for a prime role in the lawsuits against BP Plc and other corporate defendants.He has submitted an application for a seat on a committee that will oversee the cases...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc's mounting legal and regulatory woes stemming from the firm's sale of subprime mortgage-linked securities are turning into gold for a growing number of lawyers in New York and Washington.The Wall Street investment firm tapped well known litigation specialists Boies, Schiller & Flexner to defend a lawsuit filed June 9 by an Australian hedge fund that seeks $1 billion in damages, said people familiar with the situation, but who declined to be...Read Full Story

A special message from the attorneys challenging Proposition 8 in federal court. "To commemorate the 44th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court's decision that that struck down laws that forbade African Americans and whites from marrying, AFER's co-counsel in the Prop. 8 case, Ted Olson and David Boies, recorded a special message. They talk about how the Loving case set an important precedent for the current fight for marriage equality." Watch, AFTER THE JUMP... Share...Read Full Story