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Boies Schiller Flexner partner Lauren Goldman will participate as a panelist on the CLE webinar “We Need More Advocates, Not Academics: Lessons in Outside Counsel Management.” Hosted by The Ad Idem Corporate Counsel Network, Lauren will join a panel...

AI is transforming business operations by boosting productivity and innovation, but its “black box” nature makes risk assessment challenging. California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act addresses this by requiring certain AI...

The following Boies Schiller Flexner lawyers were named to the 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers. Richard Feinstein    Scott Gant    Hamish Hume    James KeytePhilip...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Gianluca Faella has joined the firm as a partner in its Rome office. Gianluca will focus on competition matters within Italy and the European Union, as well as cross-border antitrust-related disputes...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Jesse Panuccio, who co-leads the firm’s Appellate practice, has been selected as chairman of the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission. Jesse has served on the commission since 2016,...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Prateek Swaika was quoted by the Financial Times, City AM, Politico, and News5 in articles about President Donald Trump’s recent threat to sue the BBC for $1 billion over the misleading edit of its Panorama...

Boies Schiller Flexner Chairman Matthew Schwartz spoke with Law.com about maintaining a busy trial practice while serving as chairman, the fact that he has three trials scheduled for the remainder of the year, and the ways that our people define our...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Dan Boyle is quoted in a Law.com article regarding the recent hacking of the federal judiciary’s electronic case management system, known as CM/ECF. The breach has resulted in U.S. courthouses nationwide requiring...

In Law.com’s Class Actions: Critical Mass column, Boies Schiller Flexner partner Scott Gant shares his take on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to dismiss Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis, a case involving blind patients...

In a Law.com International article spotlighting the firm, Chairman Matthew Schwartz highlighted the increase in client demand for trial lawyers and key growth at all levels as factors fueling an excellent year for the firm financially. Matthew also...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner David Hunt was featured on the Telecoms.com podcast as its first-ever legal guest. Among other topics, David shared advice for how telecoms operators can manage regulatory risks and offered insights on the commercial...

BSF filed a lawsuit on behalf of Rumble Inc. alleging that Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes is using his position to enforce extraterritorial censorship. Justice Moraes has issued secret orders sua sponte, demanding that U.S.-based...

On February 5, 2025, the newly confirmed Attorney General, Pam Bondi, issued a memo titled “Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences” (“Bondi DEI Memo”) directing the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to...

On behalf of Dr. Ding Ding, Boies Schiller Flexner defeated Structure Therapeutics’ motion to compel arbitration for a second time.  Ding, whom the company hired as its first-ever chief financial officer and specifically for its planned initial...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Michael Jacobs provided commentary on the Mastercard class action and resulting funder-class representative arbitration in a Law.com International article. The article explores the growing debate over litigation...

The following Boies Schiller Flexner lawyers were named to the 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers. David BoiesJim Denvir Richard Feinstein    Scott Gant    Hamish Hume    James...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Alessia Allegretti has been appointed co-chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. The committee will focus on four key strategic areas: cybersecurity; diversity, equity...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Alison Anderson will participate in Ad Item Network’s CLE Webinar “The Voice of Champions: Front Line Fighters in the War Against Sexual Assault” on December 3, 2024. Alison, who co-leads the firm's Sexual...

Boies Schiller Flexner of counsel Hon. Shira Scheindlin will speak on the panel “Enforceable Arbitral Subpoenas: What to Know” during New York Arbitration Week. This panel will consider the significant recent case law developments affecting arbitral...

U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Structure Therapeutics Inc.’s motion to compel arbitration in the suit filed by BSF client Ding Ding, Ph.D., who alleges she...

Law.com International reported on the lawsuit Telf AG & Mayaniquel SA v. Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote, which was filed by BSF in a Florida state court against the Guatemalan lawyer Juan Pablo Carrasco de Groote. The suit was filed on behalf of...

BSF has been named a Top Performer and Compass Award winner by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), which recognizes law firms and corporations that show a strong commitment to building a more inclusive legal profession. LCLD is composed...

BSF is representing Mayaniquel, a mining company affected by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions, imposed in late 2022, that shut down Guatemala's nickel mines. On behalf of Mayaniquel, BSF co-founder Jonathan...

By Alan Vickery, John LaSalle, and Katherine Cassirer In 2020, BSF client Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York (LLANY) was hit with a first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit. Relying on a 100-year-old New York statute requiring the return of...

Partner Kenya Davis is quoted extensively in a Rolling Stone article about Sean “Diddy” Combs being indicted on racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and interstate transportation to engage in prostitution charges. In the article, Kenya, who...

Jenna Smith and Lauren Goldman were interviewed by Law.com for its “How We Made Partner” column, chronicling their journeys to BSF. In the interviews, Jenna and Lauren spoke about their careers, including their mentors, previous experience, and why...

By Renee Zaytsev The article originally appeared on Bloomberg Law. Editor's note: Renee Zaytsev was counsel in the matter of Paragon Technologies, Inc. v. Cryan prior to joining Boies Schiller Flexner. Advance notice bylaws—provisions in a company's...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Marc Ayala is quoted in the article, “Help, the Lenders Are Fighting Again: Creditor Violence Driving Demand in Bankruptcy, Litigation Practices” by The American Lawyer.  The article discusses the recent rise of...

On April 4, the Delaware Supreme Court issued its decision in the appeal of In re: Match Group Inc. Derivative Litigation, a closely watched case in which it was asked to break up with a decade of Delaware Chancery Court precedent and ease the...

Boies Schiller Flexner partners Adam Shaw and Jenna Smith published their quarterly article in the New York Law Journal looking at cases of significance in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. This installment of the...

On March 21, Boies Schiller Flexner partner Mark Brnovich will speak at Magna Legal Services’ annual March CLE Madness conference on the panel “Successful Strategies for Negotiation.” Moderated by David Barnard, senior litigation consultant at Magna...

On February 27, Boies Schiller Flexner associate Joshua Quaye will be a panelist on the symposium “Where Business Law & Tech Intersect,” which will be hosted by Black Tech Link. Additional panelists include Taurean Brown, general...

Boies Schiller Flexner of counsel Hon. Shira Scheindlin will speak at this year’s Legalweek Judges Panel: Judicial Legendary Legends and the Current MVPs, which takes place Wednesday, January 31 at 9:30 a.m. Judge Scheindlin is among...

Boies Schiller Flexner of counsel Hon. Shira Scheindlin will speak at HarrisMartin’s the Art of Litigation Conference: Crafting a Better Practice, which will feature eight active and retired judges. Shira will speak on the panel "Art for...

Boies Schiller Flexner of counsel Hon. Shira Scheindlin will speak on the panel “Digital Dilemmas: Adapting Arbitration to Technological Evolution – A NY Perspective” during New York Arbitration Week. The panel will introduce...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner David Hunt was quoted in a number of publications this week reporting on the recent King’s Speech, which included an announcement that the government will be introducing new arbitration legislation. David noted it...

BSF counsel Valeria Valentini contributed to the recent publication “L’organismo di vigilanza nelle società. Prassi operative, profili di responsabilità, strumenti digitali di supporto” (“Supervisory Board in...

BSF is proud to announce that we have been honored by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) as a 2023 Top Performer and Compass Award winner, recognizing our continued commitment and involvement in LCLD’s important programming and...

BSF Chairman David Boies will participate in a lunch discussion hosted by The Federalist Society on civility in the law on May 24, 2023. The discussion will be moderated by Reginald J. Brown and includes additional speakers Charles J. Cooper and...

BSF attorneys Prateek Swaika and Sagar Gupta published an article in Corporate Compliance Insights that discusses developments within the regulatory framework of the U.K.’s anti-money laundering regime since the U.K. imposed sanctions targeting...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Sashi Bach was featured in Law.com’s Q&A series “How I Made It.” In the interview, Sashi discusses her rise to Fort Lauderdale administrative partner, her various responsibilities in the role, and...

At first blush, the U.S. Supreme Court decision on May 18 in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts Inc. v. Goldsmith seems to backtrack on nearly two decades of fair use precedent. Upon closer consideration, however, although the majority certainly...

The legal situation following the Supreme Court’s decision to reverse Roe v. Wade leaves more questions than answers for employees and corporations in states where the laws are now unclear or rapidly evolving. The Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys who...

In a recent pro-arbitration ruling in Aiteo Eastern E&P Company Limited v Shell Western Supply & Trading Limited, the English Commercial Court (the ‘Court’) affirmed the validity of unilateral option clauses in English-seated...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today announced that Jenny H. Kim and Michael M. Fay have joined the firm’s New York office as partners. With deep experience in litigation involving financial products, bankruptcy, and securities cases, Jenny and...

BSF is proud to announce that we have been honored by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) as a 2022 Top Performer and Compass Award winner, recognizing our continued commitment and involvement in LCLD's important programming and mission...

President Biden announced his intent to appoint Boies Schiller Flexner partner Steve Zack, among others, to serve as a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. Established in 1958 by President Eisenhower, the...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Adam Shaw and associate Jenna Smith published their quarterly article in the New York Law Journal looking at cases of significance in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. This...

As of yesterday, June 21, Xinjiang-associated goods are presumptively barred from entering the United States. Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must presume that all imports manufactured,...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Meredith Schultz spoke to Law.com about her journey to making partner. "Throughout my time working at BSF, I have focused on the fact that for many of our clients—whether they be in-house lawyers or...

Modern states face an acute struggle to provide affordable, reliable and low-carbon energy. Russia’s war in Ukraine only underlines Europe’s hazardous dependency upon imported hydrocarbons. Confronted with these problems, states have been...

On March 25, Boies Schiller Flexner Italy, together with Constantine Cannon LLP, Stonehage Fleming and DH Office, will host the event “Why are we still looking for Nazi-looted art in Italy?” at the Ateneo Veneto in Venice. The conference...

The “total institutional failure” of the Department of Justice’s handling of privileged material in the ongoing prosecution of former Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng highlights the serious issues with the use of “filter”...

On Tuesday, January 18, Boies Schiller Flexner Chairman David Boies will argue on behalf of firm clients, David Cassirer and other petitioners, in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, a dispute over ownership of a painting stolen by...

The Daily Business Review profiled the efforts of Sashi Bach and Carl Goldfarb in reaching a settlement between their client, Fisher Island Community Association, and Fisher Island’s developers, Fisher Island Holdings LLC and Par 7 LLC, in a...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Jesse Panuccio has been reappointed to the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission by Governor DeSantis.

Multinational organizations often adopt corporate structures that are calculated to insulate the group parent company from the wrongful acts of its subsidiaries. The recent jurisprudence of the UK Supreme Court demonstrates that such structures may...

Boies Schiller Flexner associate Corey Gray served two tours of duty in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division before transitioning to the U.S. Army Reserve. He pursued a law degree at the urging of senior leaders while he was assigned to U.S. Southern...

Legal Business has shortlisted the London office of Boies Schiller Flexner for Commercial Litigation Team of the Year 2020. The award category identifies an impressive result in commercial litigation by the winning team. Boies Schiller was nominated...

Best Lawyers has named Stuart Singer as the 2021 Fort Lauderdale Lawyer of the Year for Bet-the-Company Litigation. Only one lawyer in each practice area and geographic region is selected for the Lawyer of the Year award each year. Best Lawyers also...

As the United States battles simultaneous public-health and economic crises, COVID-19 has presented some unprecedented challenges — many are familiar to borrowers, regulators, servicers and investors who recall the financial crisis in 2008....

Sigrid McCawley has been waging a war against Jeffrey Epstein and his various allies for the past five and a half years, representing eight women and serving as co-counsel for three others, American Lawyer columnist Vivia Chen wrote. McCawley's...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Sigrid McCawley talked about her career, and her representation of one of the first sexual abuse survivors to speak out against Jeffrey Epstein, for a profile in the Daily Business Review. The No. 1 thing...

By Matthew L. Schwartz This Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of the arrest of Bernard Madoff. Madoff’s crime was, without doubt, the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time and a contender for the most notorious financial fraud ever. Over the...

BSF partner Scott Gant was quoted in the Mercury News in its coverage of a RICO class action lawsuit concerning client Corrective Education Company, a provider of a program offered by retailers to combat shoplifting. “The program is...

Ad hoc committees can allow creditors to effectively maximise leverage and pressure against a debtor company to obtain the best outcome for them both individually and as a group. However, it is critical that the structure, decision-making, governance...

BSF's statement on behalf of Cogent Communications was cited by The Recorder in article chronicling what major law firms have recently told the FCC in the months leading up to the repeal of net neutrality. “In addition to better conforming...

BSF attorneys David Barrett, Karen Chesley, and Alex Potter filed an amicus brief on behalf of The Women's Law Project and six other women's advocacy groups asking the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review in Lazar v. Kroncke, a case that...

Alex Jones, the proprietor of right-wing website Infowars, expressed regret for "any negative impact our commentaries may have had" on Washington restaurant Comet Ping Pong and its owner James Alefantis, CNNMoney reports. Jones was apologizing for...

Partner Scott Gant tells the Houston Chronicle there's a good chance Clarence Thomas is the Supreme Court Justice that Sen. Ted Cruz suggested will step down in the near future. "If I had to guess, I'd think that's who Ted is referring to....

Legal Momentum – The Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today filed federal lawsuits on behalf of an individual and entities in Arizona and Florida against the website Backpage.com for participating in...

The courts in this country have spent decade after decade—sometimes hundreds of years—setting out rules of decision in resolving common law claims. Considering both process and policy, can we say from state to state whether the courts...

Legal Momentum—The Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, represented by Boies, Schiller & Flexner, today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case against Backpage.com for facilitating the buying and selling of children for...

The Supreme Court's Hobbs Act ruling in Ocasio v. U.S. bolsters the prosecutor’s motivation to have his witnesses under indictment, rather than gamble with an independent witness, Lauren Louis tells Law360. "Despite assurances by the majority...

Partner Scott Gant tells Bisnow he's not surprised by the fact that Ted Cruz's natural born citizenship and eligibility for the presidential nomination has come into question, and says that there will be more to come. "I am 100% convinced that...

Responsibility for data privacy and cybersecurity causes anxiety and sleep deprivation for chief information officers, general counsels and CEOs for good reason.  Virtually every day, headlines recount the miseries of a newly hacked company. What are...

They say you can't go home again or back in time. My trip to Cuba made me question both beliefs. Landing at Jose Marti International Airport brought back a flood of memories from my last visit when I was almost 13 years old leaving the country. That...

Since their implementation in 2010, the SEC’s Whistleblower regulations have been the topic of endless speculation, fascination, and analysis by the securities defense bar.  But their practical impact so far has been relatively...

Boy Scouts President Warns that Ban on Gay Leaders Threatens Organization.

On April 21, 2015, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) posted an alert flagging a new Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) that was sent to roughly 700 Miami businesses. According to FinCEN's alert, the GTO was issued "to shed light on cash...

Key considerations for citing to unpublished opinions in federal litigation and guidance on asking a court to publish an opinion.  Scott is a partner in the firm’s Washington, DC office. His main practice areas include complex commercial litigation,...

(This article was first published by National Law Journal.)

Unilever Faces Blowback in Mayonnaise False Ad War.

Diegeo Inks Deal to Exit Johnnie Walker Trademark Row.

D.C. budget autonomy suit could compel Congress to butt out of District’s finances

Debates on software patent eligibility have focused "unduly" on preemption, Parker Bagley tells Law360. "Here, the abstract idea is really giving a gift. That can be implemented any number of ways and this is one way." 

In a closely watched dispute between the New York Yankees and the country’s largest ticket reseller, StubHub, BSF won a court order preventing StubHub from opening a storefront near Yankee Stadium days before the start of the 2013 Major League...

A team of lawyers led by BSF partners Robin A. Henry and Motty Shulman have secured another significant victory in their continuing representation of BNP Paribas in its suit against Bank of America. BNP Paribas has alleged that Bank of...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner is advocating for industry-wide acceptance of innovative and highly effective technology to prevent injuries from table saws. Thousands of people in the U.S. sever fingers or maim hands with table saws every year,...

The below article, written by Frederick J. Lee of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, and Dr. David Tabak of NERA Economic Consulting, was originally published in Law360's Expert Analysis section. An extended version is also...

One of the defining events in our nation’s history happened in September 223 years ago — the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed the U.S. Constitution, a written charter for a new, and enduring, federal government....

On August 4, 2010, salesforce.com reached settlement in their patent infringement dispute with Microsoft.  Boies, Schiller & Flexner was retained by salesforce.com after Microsoft filed suit against the San Francisco start-up in Federal Court in...

BSF partner Carl Goldfarb was listed in the Miami Herald Movers section for his election to president of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC), a non-profit agency providing legal services to immigrants of all nationalities. To learn more...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner ranked at the top of the Up-and-Comers list for the American Lawyers 2010 A-List law firms. The A-List consists of the 20 highest ranked law firms, and the Up-and-Comers category consists of the next 21-50 law...

Five Boies, Schiller & Flexner attorneys have been recognized by Chambers and Partners in the 2010 USA rankings. Their methodology is based on independent research of firms and their clients. David Boies (Antitrust); Jonathan Schiller...

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan granted BSF’s motion to dismiss, with prejudice, a lawsuit against firm client George Steinbrenner brought by Robert Gutkowski, former president of Madison Square Garden Corporation. ...

NEW YORK - December 7, 2009 - Representing the estimated 1.4 million children in Florida eligible for Medicaid, a team of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP (BSF) attorneys began trial today in Miami before US District Judge Adalberto Jordan.  The...

BSF partner Sigrid S. McCawley is featured in Gold Coast magazine, South Florida’s leading lifestyle publication, in its first-ever '40 Under 40,' published in the November 2009 issue. The '40 Under 40' list highlights Broward County’s leading professionals under 40 years old in industries such as law, medicine, media, non-profit, sports, finance and community development. Recipients are recognized for their professional and civic contributions in Broward County; Gold Coast notes that Sigrid is a member of Leadership Broward and a board member of ChildNet, the not for profit organization that manages Broward County's child welfare system.  Please follow the below links for Gold Coast's website, as well as media coverage of this recognition.

It was just one moment in a hallway outside another hotel meeting room, but it offered a telling glimpse into the impact Stephen N. Zack is likely to have when he takes his turn as ABA president. He was giving an interview to a television crew on...

BSF is pleased to announce the appointment by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of our Partner, Richard Feinstein, to serve as its Director of the Bureau of Competition.  "This position is extraordinarily important to the enforcement of U.S....

BSF attorneys were called on quickly by Wachovia in the midst of the financial crisis to navigate state and federal litigation arising from Wachovia's rejection of merger with Citibank in favor of preferred merger with Wells Fargo. Please...

CNET.com reports that BSF's client ConnectU has found new evidence against Facebook, an online community website. According to CNET.com, the lawsuit stems from 2004 and accuses Facebook of pilfering ConnectU's "business plan and...

The Journal reports BSF's win in Tennessee Chancery Court.  On December 27, 2007, Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ordered Finish Line and UBS to proceed with a $1.5 billion merger they had sought to repudiate in light of the credit crisis.  The...

Bloomberg reported that BSF has been retained as co-lead counsel in Overstock.com's lawsuit against Rocker Partners and others.  In the case, Overstock.com alleges that statements and analysis about Overstock's business by Rocker Partners...

When a disagreement between one of the largest names in fashion and one of its principal licensees turned into an all-out war, Calvin Klein turned to Boies, Schiller & Flexner to take the field and win the battle.