Highlights
JULY 16, 2017
Announcements
BSF partners Stacey Grigsby and Randall Jackson were named Rising Stars by Law360, which published list of attorneys under the age of 40 whose “legal accomplishments transcend their age.” Stacey was named a Rising...
JULY 5, 2017
Announcements
BSF partner Rick Pocker has been named President-Elect of the State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors. He will become President in July 2018.
Pocker, the former U.S. Attorney for Nevada, heads the firm's Las Vegas office, where he practices civil and...
JULY 3, 2017
Publications
Now more than ever, state attorney generals are the last line of defense against the excesses of the President in Washington. This is a welcome development — but the expectations are high and the challenges many.
Now more than ever, state...
JUNE 23, 2017
Announcements
A team from Boies Schiller Flexner's Los Angeles office was presented with a First Amendment Award by the ACLU of Southern California for their work to prevent the depiction of a Christian cross on the official seal of Los Angeles County. The...
JUNE 2, 2017
In the News
BSF Partner Stuart Singer talks about putting contests with Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the large impact that competitive debating has had on his legal career. "I am certain that my success in law school was assisted by debate," he...
Announcements
JULY 16, 2017
Announcements
BSF partners Stacey Grigsby and Randall Jackson were named Rising Stars by Law360, which published list of attorneys under the age of 40 whose “legal accomplishments transcend their age.” Stacey was named a Rising...
JULY 5, 2017
Announcements
BSF partner Rick Pocker has been named President-Elect of the State Bar of Nevada Board of Governors. He will become President in July 2018.
Pocker, the former U.S. Attorney for Nevada, heads the firm's Las Vegas office, where he practices civil and...
JUNE 23, 2017
Announcements
A team from Boies Schiller Flexner's Los Angeles office was presented with a First Amendment Award by the ACLU of Southern California for their work to prevent the depiction of a Christian cross on the official seal of Los Angeles County. The...
MAY 24, 2017
Announcements
BSF partners Linda Burrow and Robyn Crowther have been named to the Los Angeles Daily Journal's annual list of leading women lawyers in California.
MAY 23, 2017
Announcements
Neil Pigott, previously a key member of a prominent Morgan Stanley business team, has joined the London office of Boies Schiller Flexner as counsel. Pigott is qualified to practice in London and New York. He more recently worked at BNP Paribas, has...
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In the News
JULY 10, 2017
In the News
BSF Partner Lee Wolosky, who was Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure under President Barack Obama, discussed the new administration's decision to keep the Guantanamo Bay prison open. “There is no question that Guantanamo, and the abuses that...
JUNE 30, 2017
In the News
BSF partner Steve Zack discusses how a string of bad luck in his life turned to success in his legal career. For example, the traumatic experience of fleeing Cuba in 1961 was “the seminal moment of my life when I decided to be a lawyer,”...
JUNE 27, 2017
In the News
Flexibility is a key concept at BSF that has allowed James Grippando to represent his clients successfully over the past 15 years while also flourishing as a nationally acclaimed writer, he tells the Daily Business Review. “I can write a...
JUNE 19, 2017
In the News
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that the government cannot deny trademark registration to offensive names is good news for the Washington Redskins and others, but there is a cultural cost, BSF Partner Josh Schiller tells The New York...
JUNE 6, 2017
In the News
BSF partner Harlan Levy took part in a panel discussion on the shifting understanding of “states' rights” from a traditional interpretation hostile to civil rights to a new paradigm. Viewing states as the new vindicators of federal...
Publications
JULY 3, 2017
Publications
Now more than ever, state attorney generals are the last line of defense against the excesses of the President in Washington. This is a welcome development — but the expectations are high and the challenges many.
Now more than ever, state...
JUNE 1, 2017
Publications
Our June 2016 overview of money laundering was published just two months after the leak of the Panama Papers, which was already leading to significant pressure on regulators to respond firmly to the public outcry over the content of the papers. The...
MAY 1, 2017
Publications
This article considers the rise in collective securities actions in the UK, factors contributing to that rise, and future developments that will help determine the longer-term significance of such actions.
Introduction
The UK has recently seen a...
APRIL 19, 2017
Publications
Since Congress passed the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970, banks and other financial institutions have had a legal obligation to report suspicious customer activity to the government or risk regulatory penalties and even criminal prosecution. The purpose is...
APRIL 18, 2017
Publications
As an attorney in a law firm prepares to advance an argument on behalf of her client, she discovers by chance that her partner is advocating the opposite side of the same argument on behalf of a different client in a completely unrelated matter. Not...