David Boies

David Boies ( ; born March 11, 1941) is an American lawyer. He is the chairman of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. 

Boies became well known for his role in three major cases: leading the U.S. federal government's successful prosecution of Microsoft in United States v. Microsoft Corp., his unsuccessful representation of Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in Bush v. Gore, and for successful representation of the plaintiff in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which invalidated California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage. 

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