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How David Boies Saved Me

Nov. 15, 2017

To the Editor:

Re “David Boies’s Egregious Involvement With Harvey Weinstein” (Op-Ed, nytimes.com, Nov. 9):

Having read the article by Prof. Deborah L. Rhode criticizing the lawyer David Boies, I doubt that she has any firsthand experience with how Mr. Boies deals with rape and abuse victims.

I do, because I am one. When I was in the depths of despair from having been trafficked by very powerful, wealthy people, I was unable to find anyone who would take my abuse seriously. Mr. Boies heard me and came to my rescue. He examined my experiences, sorted out the factual wheat from the confusing chaff, and filed my case. Everything he and his colleagues did was the very opposite of intimidation or silencing.

They have protected me right from the beginning, as it was fear of being harmed that kept me from coming forward many years ago. For the first time in 10 years I finally feel safe because of David Boies and his colleagues.

What’s more, his firm did not charge me legal fees. Like many other victims he represents, I will be forever grateful to him for bringing the abuse I suffered to the attention of the courts and the public.

SARAH RANSOME,BARCELONA, SPAIN

The writer is the plaintiff in Jane Doe 43 v. Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sarah Kellen, Lesley Groff and Natalya Malyshev.

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Sarah Ransome is suing David Boies over conflict of interest that saw Ransome give a deposition she was assured would always remain confidential

Dershowitz has successfully filed for the unsealing of the deposition in which Ransome says there is a lot of sensitive personal information about she and her family. Also, in the lawsuit, Ransome says that she was asked by one of Boies collegues, J. Stanley Pottinger to put her name on an op-ed that he wrote titled "How David Boies Saved Me" which was published on Nov. 15 of 2017 in the NYTimes. The article I read is from a website called law360.com and is behind a paywall but there is not that much more to it once you see it. It also mentions how Boies was behind the hiring of an intelligence firm used to defame Rose McGowan after she made her allegations toward H. Weinstein. And it also says that Ransome tried to hire Bradley Edwards but he did not seem to want to cross Boies Schiller who was the firm representing Ransome when she approached him.

Not the first time I have seen it suggested that these heroes might not really be heroes at all. More like handlers.

https://www.law360.com/pulse/new-york-pulse/articles/1524906/david-boies-faces-grievance-complaint-over-epstein-case

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>Sarah Ransome is suing David Boies

Notable cases

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Boies in 2000, outside the Supreme Court during Bush v. Gore

Boies lost the first important file-sharing case which ultimately put Napster into bankruptcy.[17]

He represented the Justice Department in the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case. Boies won a victory at trial,[18] and the verdict was upheld on appeal. The appellate court overturned the relief ordered (breakup of the company) back to the trial court for further proceedings. Thereafter, the George W. Bush administration settled the case. Bill Gates said Boies was "out to destroy Microsoft".[19] In 2001, the Washington Monthly called Boies "a brilliant trial lawyer", "a latter-day Clarence Darrow", and "a mad genius" for his work on the Microsoft case.[18]

Also at Cravath, Boies defended CBS in the libel suit Westmoreland v. CBS from 1984 to 1985, but after dragging on for two years, the case was dropped.[20]

Following the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he represented Vice President Al Gore in Bush v. Gore.[19] In Jay Roach's Recount, which focuses on the case, Boies is played by Ed Begley Jr.In his 2001 book, prosecutor and author Vincent Bugliosi criticized Boies' abilities as a trial lawyer, arguing that Boies "wasn't forceful or eloquent at all in making his points" in Bush v. Gore. "[A]lthough he seemed to have a very good grasp of the facts, he seemed completely incapable of drawing powerful, irresistible inferences from those facts that painted his opposition into a corner".[21]

In 2006, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP negotiated a major settlement with The American International Group on behalf of its client, C. V. Starr, a firm controlled by Maurice R. Greenberg, the former chairman and chief executive of A.I.G.[22] In 2015 Boies won at trial a claim that the government's $85 billion bailout of AIG had been unfair to the company's owners.[23] Boies has appealed, asking for greater money damages.

Boies negotiated on behalf of American Express two of the highest civil antitrust settlements ever for an individual company: $2.25 billion from Visa, and $1.8 billion from MasterCard.[24]

Boies is representing filmmaker Michael Moore regarding a Treasury Department investigation into Moore's trip to Cuba while filming for Sicko.[25]

On June 24, 2009, following the California Supreme Court ruling on Strauss v. Horton, Boies joined former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the opposing attorney in Bush v. Gore, in the lawsuit Perry v. Brown seeking to overturn the state of California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage.[26] In August 2010, the District Court judge ruled in their clients' favor, finding Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the proponents of Proposition 8 did not have standing to challenge the ruling, allowing the District Court judgment to stand. Same-sex marriages resumed in California on June 28, 2013.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP assisted the government in obtaining a $155 million settlement from Medco Health Solutions related to a qui tam complaint which alleged that Medco helped some pharmaceutical companies make more money by driving prescriptions to them; along with making the payment Medco also signed a corporate integrity agreement.[27][28]

On August 20, 2009, the Golden Gate Yacht Club announced that he had been retained in their ongoing dispute with Société Nautique de Genève regarding the 33rd America's Cup.[29]

In March 2010, Boies joined the team of attorneys representing Jamie McCourt in her divorce from Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt.[30]

Boies was part of the legal team representing the National Football League in their antitrust litigation, Brady v. NFL.[31]

Boies represented the National Basketball Players Association during the 2011 NBA lockout. He joined sides with Jeffrey Kessler, who opposed Boies as a representative for the players in the 2011 NFL lockout.[32]

Boies was the lead counsel for Oracle Corporation in its lawsuit against Google on the use of Java programming language technology in the Android operating system. The case decided that Google did not infringe on Oracle's patents.[33]

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>Notable cases

In 2012, Boies represented three tobacco companies, Philip Morris USA Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Liggett Group LLC, in their appeal of a $2.5 million Tampa jury verdict in the death of smoker Charlotte Douglas.[34]

In late 2012, Boies defended Gary Jackson, former president of Academi (previously known as BlackWater), in a federal prosecution which alleged he and his co-defendants illegally hid firearm purchases from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[35]

In 2015, Boies represented Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein in renegotiating the Weinsteins' employment contract.[36][37] According to The Wall Street Journal, Boies negotiated Harvey Weinstein's contract without informing Weinstein Co. directors that he had investment in the company's movies.[38]

In February 2016, Boies agreed to both sit on the board of directors and act as the attorney for troubled Silicon Valley startup Theranos. The controversial dual role was deemed difficult as he would have to represent both the company (as lawyer) and investors (as a director).[39] In the 2022 Hulu miniseries The Dropout, Boies was portrayed by Kurtwood Smith.

In 2017, Boies agreed to join the legal team for Lawrence Lessig's legal fight against winner-take-all Electoral College vote allocations in the states.[40]

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones hired Boies in 2017 to advise on Jones's legal strategy against NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL compensation committee in the wake of the suspension of running back Ezekiel Elliott.[41]

Presently, Boies represents several of Jeffrey Epstein's victims including Virginia Roberts Giuffre.[42][43]