Mary Boies focuses on antitrust and corporate commercial litigation. She has deep experience advising companies on complex commercial litigation and in her capacity as a member of the board of directors of numerous entities, including the Council on Foreign Relations, where she served two terms and chaired its Committee on Nominations and Governance.
Mary also served on the board of MIT’s Center for International Studies Advisory Committee and the Dean’s Council of the Harvard Kennedy School. She served on the Board of Visitors that oversees the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies; and the Air Force Research Institute, the Air War College, the National Security Space Institute and the Air Force Institute of Technology. Her clients include military contractors.
She was a member of the board of directors of MBNA Bank, a public Fortune 200 company before its merger with Bank of America. She has served on the boards of the International Rescue Committee, the Central European and Eurasian Law Institute, and the International Center for Journalists, and she was a Senate-appointed Commissioner on the Congressional Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women’s History Museum. Mary served as the Second Circuit representative of the committee that conducts nonpartisan, professional peer review of federal judicial nominees, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
Previously, for over 30 years she was founder and managing partner at Boies & McInnis LLP, which she wound up upon reaching retirement age. She has served as Vice President at CBS Inc., General Counsel of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, Assistant Director of the Domestic Policy Staff at the White House, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce.
She founded and later sold MaryBoies Software Inc., a publisher of children’s educational software. Titles include Top of the Key and Slam Dunk Typing, which were recognized among PC Data’s Top 10 titles and Newsweek Magazine’s Top Picks. Titles were translated and distributed into Spanish, Italian, French, German, Korean, Japanese and Chinese markets.