New York Fellow David Boies is Chairman of the law firm of Boies, Schiller and Flexner LLP.   The firm has offices in New York, Washington D.C., California, Florida, Nevada, and New Hampshire.

Mr. Boies was born in Sycamore, Illinois on March 11, 1941. He attended the University of Redlands (1960-62); and received a B.S. from Northwestern University (1964) ; an LL.B., magna cum laude, from Yale University (1966); and an LL.M. from New York University (1967).

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 in 1979. 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 has taught courses at New York University Law School and Cardozo Law School.  

Mr. Boies is the author of numerous publications including Courting Justice, published by Miramax in 2004 and Public Control of Business (co-authored with Paul Verkuil), published by Little Brown in 1977.

He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the New York Bar (1967), and the American Bar Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Mr. Boies is the recipient of LL.D.s from the University of Redlands (2000) and New York Law School (2007).   His awards include the Pinnacle Award from the International Dyslexia Association and the William Brennan Award from the University of Virginia (2000).   Mr. Boies was named the Antitrust Lawyer of the Year by the New York Bar Association (2003); the Lawyer of the Year by the National Law Journal (1999 and 2000); and the Commercial Litigator of the Year by Who’s Who International (2005 and 2008).     

In 2008 Mr. Boies successfully defended NASCAR against antitrust charges and, with his partner Donald Flexner, collected a record $4.1 billion for their client American Express in its litigation against Visa and MasterCard.   In 2009 Mr. Boies successfully defended his client Starr International against a $4.3 billion claim by AIG.