David Boies - Characterization

Characterization

• "Never in a thousand years could I have predicted such a large recovery. Mr. Boies has to be the Tiger Woods of the legal profession."

--fellow lawyer Fred Furth on the Sotheby's and Christie's price fixing class-action lawsuit.

• "Few lawyers today can rival Boies' string of major triumphs... Boies' strengths include an encyclopedic mastery of the facts of a case and a chess player's sense of predicting a course of action." Cary Reich, New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986
• " Blecher was flabbergasted that this young kid knocked him out of the box, really in the first round, " said litigator and partner Thomas D. Barr to the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986
• "The one talent of David's that stands out is his ability to lay out a course of action that would take into account any sort of complicated facts and develop a far-reaching scenario. It's a chess player's sense: If I do this, the following 15 things are going to happen, and if step 11 goes so, I'll do this rather than that. It's a fantastic game-playing ability." Thomas D. Barr, quoted in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, June 1, 1986
• "No lawyer in America has tried and argued on appeal as many landmark cases in as many different areas as Mr. Boies." Citation in Milton Gould Award for Outstanding Advocacy, October 1996
• "In court and out, he speaks a brand of English so simple and direct that he sounds like the high school teacher he once thought he would become." Time Magazine, "Get me Boies!" by Daniel Okrent, December 25, 2000
• "The Boies memory is one of the first things cited when people discuss his strengths. What's most impressive about that gift -- focused as it may be by the intensified concentration that his dyslexia demands -- is Boies' uncanny ability to recall a key fact, legal citation or piece of contradictory testimony at moments of the most intense pressure." Time Magazine, "Get me Boies!" by Daniel Okrent, December 25, 2000
• "David is the best lawyer I have ever seen, bar none... No question, David Boies is hard-wired different than everybody else. His brain works different. I was there at the counsel's table when he argued Bush v. Gore, I have seen other things he's done. He's just different. He's not human, in a very real way. He's capable of keeping track of five different things in a way that most very, very good lawyers could keep track of one of them... When it comes to a lawyer-lawyer, David Boies is far and away (the best)." Tom Goldstein, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld