David Boies
David Boies
David Boiesis an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 March 1941
CountryUnited States of America
achieve both necessity pleased
Both Mr. Shandling and I are very pleased with the settlement. We're very pleased we could achieve it without the necessity of a trial.
direct indirect interest ownership
no direct or indirect ownership interest in Amici.
change doubt looked number results says sufficient votes
The statute says you need only have a sufficient number of votes to change or place in the doubt the results of an election. (Sauls) has not even looked at any of the ballots.
compete nowhere
But they don't come out of nowhere to compete with Windows. Not in 12 years.
accept court florida resolved supreme whoever wins
This is going to be resolved by the Florida Supreme Court promptly, and what I think is that will be the end of the matter. I think whoever wins in the Florida Supreme Court will accept that.
complete contest happened nature tonight understanding until view
It probably will not be until tonight that we have a complete view of what has happened and a complete understanding of what the nature of our contest will be.
trials prejudice lost
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
law important matter
It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.
judging mind done
You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.
kids sunday years
I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.
boss partners 1960s
But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.
mean thinking rights
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.
napster infringement vicarious
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
lawyer cases
Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.