Paul Maritz, the highest-ranking executive besides Gates whom Boies bloodied, shook hands with him afterward. The press loved Boies for his intelligibility, good nature, and candor. For all of his famed inaccessibility to clients and colleagues, he is infinitely available to and patient with reporters, never tiring of discussing his craft or himself. Boies, some say, can be harsh to people he deems insufficiently smart or use-ful.
He can be insensitive—or, to put it more charitably, oblivious—to those working with him: failing to give gifts, for instance, or leaving gifts from others unopened and in plain view for months. And he can use his intelligence cruelly. She told them she had not come there to listen to them get drunk and ruin her dinner. In other words, amid his own merrymaking he had overheard everything she had said, remembered it, and thrown it back at her.
It was a marvelous moment, great cinema. It was also a sign that we were not in the presence of a normal guy. There are those who feel that everything about him—the sunniness, the cheap clothes, the hearty laugh—is carefully calculated. It goes well with what I think is his brilliant achievement as a lawyer, which is the ability to formulate a complicated proposition or analysis in terms so simple that it just seems inevitable. Donald Trump, who retained Boies on a casino-related matter, agrees, at least when it comes to clothes.
David is not a great trial lawyer by accident. He has the ability to anticipate every possibility and permutation and prepare himself for it, perhaps without seeming to have done so. The oldest of the five children of two schoolteachers, Boies was born in in Marengo, Illinois, a small town northwest of Chicago. In his family moved to Southern California, where he went to high school and married his high-school sweetheart, thereby losing a scholarship to Antioch College.
Instead, after a two-year hiatus, he enrolled in the University of Redlands, a small college in Southern California that was Baptist at the time. There, he compressed three academic years into two. And in his first semester he took the Law School Admission Test. True to form, Boies showed up in tennis shoes and chinos. In his second year Boies, by this time the divorced father of two, became editor in chief of the law review. Awash in embarrassing gossip, the school ended up banishing all three sides of the love triangle.
His new Yale classmates saw Boies as a Gatsbyesque character: an exotic midwesterner with a whiff of romance and scandal about him. The phenomenal intelligence was there, but only for those who looked. He also graduated second in his class. That got him a job at Cravath. Though the place tolerated brilliant nonconformity a bit better than some other white-shoe firms, it was still an odd fit; from the beginning, Boies set out to test the limits. In , Boies flirted with leaving the practice of law for a full-time teaching job at Stanford Law School.
Within a few years Barr and Nicholas deB. At 31, he was the youngest partner in the firm. It was while there that he met the third Mrs. But Boies was not the Washington type and soon he was back at Cravath. In , CBS retained him for the Westmoreland case, which stemmed from a documentary that accused the general of deliberately understating enemy troop strength in Vietnam.
Boies had never tried a libel case before and was no authority on the First Amendment. Seeking to prove the truthfulness of the charges before even arguing the more traditional, easier defense that CBS was wrong but well intentioned , Boies researched the war massively.
He cross-examined relentlessly. Reporters took to humming the theme song from Jaws each time he approached opposing witnesses. With Westmoreland on the stand, he had to pull off the far more delicate mission of showing that the general had lied, but without generating undue sympathy for a man of great rectitude and patriotism.
Just as Boies was wrapping up his defense, the general dropped his case. In , for Westinghouse, he successfully fought off charges brought by Philippine president Corazon Aquino that the company had paid bribes to former president Ferdinand Marcos to build a useless nuclear-power plant.
His life was frantic. What is he taking? More than once, associates flew to California with him simply to gain a few precious hours of face time. Inevitably, though, Boies became increasingly detached from Cravath, and Cravath, or at least some partners there, became increasingly disenchanted with him.
His attendance at firm functions, always spotty, grew more sporadic still. He would not always do the work the firm requested, and he took on clients—like plaintiffs in anti-trust cases—that made Cravath or its corporate clients uncomfortable. His unavailability sometimes left other partners in the lurch, upsetting their vacation plans. Then, in , Steinbrenner came calling, first on questions of revenue sharing, and, later, on signing pitchers Hideki Irabu and Graeme Lloyd.
Though he was hardly your typical Cravath client, no one much minded; as Boies notes, the firm now had another source for good box seats. One person who did notice, however, was Fay Vincent—former commissioner of baseball and perennial Steinbrenner adversary.
Browser share needs to remain a key priority for our field and marketing efforts. Gates was more forthcoming when asked what Chase meant by "jihad. Some of the exchanges evoked laughter in the courtroom. After introducing the Gates' e-mail into evidence, Boies quizzed Gates about what "non-Microsoft" browsers he was concerned about when he wrote it in January Gates said he was confused.
Is it -- are you asking me about when I wrote this e-mail or what are you asking me about? At another point, Boies pressed Gates on whether he was "concerned" about competition from those browsers.
After more back-and-forth about what the term meant, and why the question was being posed, Boies lost his patience. Gates early in the segment said he viewed Netscape as a competitor Let IDG. But as a sign of how worried Microsoft is about the effect of the videotape, the company brought in a hired gun to talk to reporters about how depositions are typically combative and involve "jousting" and, in that sense, how Gates' deposition was "unremarkable.
Attorney Joseph di Genova, who Microsoft brought to the courthouse to speak with reporters about how depositions differ from trial testimony. He said it was important to determine what the company's chief decision maker was thinking in January , when Microsoft was changing its strategy with regard to the Internet. But as the central figure, the chief executive, and decision maker, what he says matters a lot.
Microsoft may still be able to call Gates as a witness, as each side can call two rebuttal witnesses, but Boies declined to say whether that was in the cards. The questioning led Weadock to admit he had no programming experience or knowledge of source code. The Indian Bar Association is reporting that murder charges have been filed in India's High Court against two billionaires responsible for the AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine, Covishield, for the murder of a year-old man who was injected with the shot.
This lawsuit was not a case filed by prosecutors against Gates and therefore will not result in a criminal trial against the Microsoft founder for murder charges that could carry a potential death penalty outcome. The lawsuit was filed by a woman who claimed her son died "due to side effects of vaccines. Petitioner has sought prosecution of AstraZeneca's Covishield manufacturer Bill Gates, his partner Adar Poonawalla and other Government officials and leaders involved in the murder of a 23 year old man, who lost his life because of vaccination.
The deceased took the Covishield vaccine by believing in the false narrative that the vaccine is completely safe and also owing to the compliance requirement set by the Railways that only double vaccinated people would be allowed to travel. As per the expert opinion, considering the proofs of sterling nature, Bill Gates and Adar Poonawalla will get death penalty.
But the government has not filed murder charges against Gates and he is not, in late November , facing a case with a death penalty punishment.
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