Lee Hirsch, director of the documentary "Bully," on the battle over the rating for his movie.
The owners bear most of this blame. That much has to be said at the start. This was their game of running players off the road as they tried to get out of harm's way. The players offered concession after concession -- a 7-percent reduction of their share of basketball-related income that would have nearly wiped out the league's purported $300 million in annual losses, changes to the system that would further improve the economics and a season to be had as long as that was actually the goal.
Athletes have trophies, gunslingers have notches, and David Boies has his wine cellars. The corridors en route are lined with framed headlines of his courtroom conquests. "The man who ate Microsoft!" proclaimed Vanity Fair; "Westy raised the white flag!" announced the New York Post, after Gen. William Westmoreland withdrew his libel suit against 60 Minutes. The climate-controlled cellars themselves, beneath his Georgian mansion in the northern suburbs of New York City, are stocked with 10,000 bottles of Bordeaux and California reds -- the evident spoils of success. But, as he tells you in a favorite tale, his beloved wine also becomes a reminder of what's made him the nonpareil lawyer of his time.
Two prominent lawyers, conservative Ted Olson and liberal David Boies, team up to fight for gay marriage in California.
The thing that is hard to miss in Ted Olson's Washington office are the quills. They're in a mug, all 56 of them, each commemorating an appearance before the Supreme Court. In many of those cases, he was the standard bearer for conservatives. And a successful one; he won 44 times.
Opponents of California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages launched a new court challenge Wednesday, led by lawyers who were on opposite sides of the case that settled the 2000 presidential race.
Supporters of same-sex marriage are fighting on despite a recent court loss in California. Bill Schneider reports.
Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the legendary former chief executive of AIG, declined to answer questions Saturday from the New York Attorney General's office about his role in a controversial transaction between AIG and another insurer. Instead, Greenberg invoked his Fifth Amendment rights, his defense lawyer confirmed.
Fortune: Hank's last standupdated: Tue Oct 07 2008 10:10:00
On Sept. 11 of this year, an eerie morning stillness envelops lower Manhattan as a deep-blue Mercedes sedan pulls up alongside the state courthouse building on the outskirts of Chinatown. A spry, gray-haired man in a dark suit emerges from the car. He strides to a back entrance, too preoccupied to notice the small cluster of elderly Chinese Americans doing tai chi.
The judge overseeing the bankruptcy of Adelphia Communications will hear arguments Monday afternoon on whether to appoint a special examiner to explore an alleged conflict of interest that led the cable provider to fire famed litigator David Boies and his firm last August.
The law firm of prominent attorney David Boies has stepped down as special counsel for Adelphia Communications Corp. after the cable company discovered business ties between his family members and a document processing company working for Adelphia, a news report said Tuesday.
Fortune: MR. CLEANUPupdated: Mon Nov 15 2004 00:01:00
If the rumors playing out on CNBC were right, Ed Breen had just made one of the worst career moves in the annals of American business. It was a steamy Thursday in July 2002, and Breen had returned ...
Fortune: Book Reviewupdated: Mon Oct 04 2004 00:01:00
A couple of years ago the New York Times ran a story about superlitigator David Boies in which rivals sniped that he was accepting more work than any mortal could adequately handle. Readers of Boie...
Fortune: Overcoming Dyslexiaupdated: Mon May 13 2002 00:01:00
Consider the following four dead-end kids.
When we heard that Starz Pictures was developing a script based on the Napster trials, we had our doubts: David Boies is no Lara Croft. But this poster, designed by the Internet wits at Modern Humo...
Fortune: David Boiesupdated: Mon Mar 05 2001 00:01:00
Alan Dershowitz had Claus von Bulow, Johnnie Cochran had O.J., and, in the past two years Boies had three starmaking cases, fighting legal battles for Al Gore and Napster and against Microsoft. Jus...
A few years back, Bill Lerach scoffed at the idea that his powerful enemies might ever put him out of business. "We're like snakes," he declared. "You cut us in half, and we'll still wiggle."
On a Sunday afternoon in April, two days after returning from a trip to London, Detroit shopping-center developer Robert Taubman flew to New York City to see money manager Ron Baron. Taubman had ju...
After a federal judge in Manhattan ruled last month that MP3.com must pay Universal Music Group up to $250 million in damages for copyright violations, a lot of people's attention shifted to Napste...
Fortune: A Two-Suitcase Storyupdated: Mon Sep 04 2000 00:01:00
Increasingly these days, writing about business means writing about lawyers. Think about it: tobacco, HMOs, Internet file sharing--these are all stories that hinge largely on the outcome of litigat...
It's the Fourth of July in San Francisco, and big John Hummer, co-founder of the venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, is holding court at the Dolphin Club. The club stands out amid the tony tourist...
The lawyers from hell passed the Sunday evening in Miami at one another's throats. Since last fall, every last one of them had filed multiple class-action suits against every last Health Maintenanc...
The Microsoft antitrust trial has been very good to David Boies, the brilliant litigator the Justice Department tapped to present its case--the man who humiliated Bill Gates and made mincemeat out ...
MONDAY, JUNE 14: Here's the great mystery of the Microsoft trial: How can a company this smart put on a defense this dumb? As Microsoft presented its case last winter--and as government prosecutor ...
TUESDAY, JUNE 1: "It looks like old home week," says Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, cracking a smile as he calls Round Two of the Microsoft antitrust trial to order. Round One, you'll recall, ended...
Friday, May 21: Deep in the bowels of a Washington, D.C., hotel, Steve Case, the chief executive of AOL, sits at the end of a very long table, surrounded by lawyers. To his left are some AOL attorn...
MONDAY, MARCH 22: It's not even 8 A.M. in Redmond, Wash., and it's already been a hellacious day for the PR staff at Microsoft. This morning the Wall Street Journal ran a story claiming that the so...
TUESDAY, FEB. 23: "It's hard to believe sometimes that this is an antitrust trial," David Boies is saying with a laugh. It's morning, and the government's chief prosecutor has just strolled into Ju...
THURSDAY, FEB. 11: Will Microsoft ever learn? That's the big question this morning at the Microsoft antitrust trial as the company's latest witness, Brad Chase, takes the stand. As usual, Chase's d...
MONDAY, JAN. 25: The afternoon session at the Microsoft antitrust trial has barely begun, and we're already shaking our heads in amazement. Paul Maritz, a top Microsoft executive, has been sworn in...
Mid-January: Maybe I've watched too many lawyer shows, but I've been expecting something a little more dramatic as the government finally rests its case in the Microsoft antitrust trial. Instead, t...
MONDAY, JAN. 4: For weeks we'd been hearing rumors about the Intuit testimony. Intuit CEO William Harris, scheduled to be the second-to-last witness in United States v. Microsoft, would make some p...
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2: Weird day today. In Washington, the 150 or so people attending the Microsoft antitrust trial are watching the latest installment in our favorite video series: Billg Gives a Depos...
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16: "Did you write [this E-mail], Mr. Gates, on or about January 5, 1996?"
Monday, Nov. 2: Something's up. Today is unfolding differently from most mornings in the Microsoft trial. Usually the press and public enter the courtroom just before 10 A.M. But today at 10 the la...
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