V. Goliath: The Trials of David Boies
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (751 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375726551 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Donovan seems to believe he's too cozy with members of the media who report on him and that he basks rather too much in the media's glow. Best known as the lawyer who represented the Democratic Party and Al Gore during the 2000 postelection battle, Boies has been involved in other high-profile cases: he represented the U.S. William Westmoreland. But Donovan, who tracked Boies with his approval, also knocks the lawyer off his pedestal, exposing the "myth" that he spearheaded IBM's defense in the 1975 U.S. v. While sometimes focusing on irrelevant personal details, she offers a sure, skeptical account of Boies's rise to the top of the legal realm. Justice Department in its suit against Microsoft, and CBS when it was sued by Gen. 8)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Donovan, a former attorney and editor at the National Law Journal, underscores Boies's brilliant min
"A broad overview which does not dent the Boies veneer." according to Shinobi. I like the fact that Ms. Donovan had such close access to Mr. Boies in writing this biography. It is a little embarrassing but fun toread that Mr. Boies' jaw 'locks' when he is angry.There are a lot of meals in this book, so do not read it on a empty stomach. The book talks about Mr. Boies' formative years. Welearn he is dyslexic, but we do not learn what he did to counteract this and graduate from Yale Law School.A good book.. A must for future and current litigators David Boies probably has the most varied and storied career of any litigator alive, capped now by his recent work on the California Prop. 8 case. Unlike many top litigators profiled in previous books, who are workaholics with boundless energy but few quirks or outside interests, Boies is also a bit of an eccentric in his career path, world view, hobbies, and even shoe preferences.This combination helps make Karen Donovan's book such a compelling read, and Boies such a compelling subject. Interspersed with incisive analysis of major cases Boies has handled, particularly the Microsoft antitrust case, are sn. The Inside Scoop In this insightful and yeomanly researched book, Karen Donovan paints a vivid picture of a man who has achieved iconic status among America's trial lawyers. Thanks to the access granted the author by David Boies, we get not only a ringside seat for some of the last decade's most high-profile trials, including, of course, the one that put the current occupant of the White House in office, but we're there for pre-trial strategy sessions and post-trial dinners as well. Throughout, Donovan maintains a keen-eyed objectivity and isn't afraid to deflate balloons of bravado when need be. All in all, it's a compel
In v. Legal journalist Karen Donovan, herself a lawyer, had unprecedented access to Boies for nearly two years. David Boies, the star trial lawyer in a country obsessed with legal drama, proves endlessly fascinating in this compulsively readable account of his extraordinary career.A man of almost superhuman accomplishment, Boies argued a string of headline-making cases before being catapulted to international prominence when he represented Al Gore before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. Brash, reckless, and prideful, he is also charming, charismatic, unerringly articulate in the courtroom, and supremely comfortable in the public eye. Goliath she gives us a scintillating chronicle of the legal dramas in which Boies has