Michael A. Carvin for Bush Carvin served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration from 1983-1988. Known as a trial and appellate litigator, Carvin has argued several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He represented a group of private citizens who wanted to urge the justices to reject a Census Bureau plan to adjust its data to compensate for an expected undercount of minorities. Carvin received his bachelor's degree from Tulane University and his law degree from George Washington University.
Boies often works without notes thanks to a nearly photographic memory.
He once appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court without a scrap of paper in front of him. Early in his career, Boies represented IBM in a 13-year antitrust standoff with the Justice Department. He cross-examined a Justice economist in that case for 38 days. St. Petersburg Times. All rights reserved.