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
trials prejudice lost
We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
anybody clear decline exactly prices
I don't think anybody can tell you exactly how much the prices would decline, but it's clear it would decline substantially.
word
What is it about the word 'concerned' that you don't understand?
agencies court positions shut trying willing written
What is going on is AIG is trying to shut down the Starr agencies as competitors, and that AIG is willing to take positions in court that are inconsistent with written contracts, and internally inconsistent.
telling understand
You don't? ... Is that what you're telling me? You don't understand what that means?
company likely potential
What company is most likely to be a potential entrant for operating-system competition?
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.
fraud large surprised uncovered work
I would be very, very surprised if we uncovered a large fraud at this stage. The work we have done would have been enough to uncover a very large fraud at this stage.
compete nowhere
But they don't come out of nowhere to compete with Windows. Not in 12 years.
good mood people
People are in a good mood at the Open.
argued december final honor manual permit selection time
I think, your honor, you could say -- and this is not that different from what we have argued -- that as long as the manual recounts will not impair the final certification in time to permit the selection of electors by December 12, that those manual recounts must be included.
both danger involved lawyers
I think when you have as many lawyers that are involved on both sides, there is a danger that they all try to find something to do.
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From our perspective, to say that you are going to wait until after the trial to have the examination of the ballots, is backwards, because here the witnesses are primarily the ballots.