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Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office was ranked by Legal 500 UK for International Arbitration. Additionally, counsel Tim Smyth was recognized as an “Associate to Watch” in Public International Law. Leaping two tiers in International...

While some white collar enforcement trends have cooled during the Trump administration, False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement continues to heat up. The U.S. Department of Justice is wielding the FCA broadly and across numerous business sectors to...

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...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Maxwell Pritt testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime & Counterterrorism in a hearing regarding recent allegations AI and tech leaders have been complicit in pirating protected intellectual...

In an article by Wealth Briefing, Boies Schiller Flexner partner Prateek Swaika commented on the implications of a U.K. Supreme Court ruling this week that said a former banker who gave his wife £78 million ($106.4 million) will not have to split it...

New York COVID 19 Leave SunsettingOn July 31, 2025, the COVID-19 Paid Emergency Leave legislation (PEL) is scheduled to expire, and employers will no longer be required to provide this separate benefit. PEL was enacted in March 2020 and requires...

Commentary by Boies Schiller Flexner partner Prateek Swaika is included throughout an article by Spear’s on upcoming U.K. regulatory reforms designed to strengthen protections against debanking, offering greater transparency, extended notice periods,...

Boies Schiller Flexner partners Maxwell Pritt and Margaux Poueymirou authored an article for the Daily Journal on the use of “shadow library” Anna’s Archive and copyright issues in the AI space. 

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys and practices were singled out for inclusion in the Chambers USA 2025 rankings. The individual attorneys listed include: David Boies in Antitrust (New York), Antitrust: Mainly Plaintiff (New York), Litigation:...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Luigi Macioce will speak at the 25th annual U.S. and Europe Tax Practice Trends conference in Amsterdam. Luigi will speak in the wealth management workshop, “It’s a Matter of Trust: Foreign Grantor Trusts and Other...

Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office was ranked by Legal 500 UK for International Arbitration and recognized as one of the Firms to Watch for Commercial Litigation: Premium. The international arbitration group is praised for being “a first-rate...

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...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced today that Dan Boyle has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office, marking his return to private practice after spending over five years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central District of...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys and practices were singled out for inclusion in the Chambers USA 2024 rankings. The individual attorneys listed include: Chairman David Boies in Antitrust (New York), Antitrust: Mainly Plaintiff (New York), Antitrust:...

In summaryThe #MeToo Movement has exposed significant and pervasive sexual misconduct taking place within corporate organisations. Many executives and officers have already faced some measure of accountability, both for their own sexual misconduct...

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...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys won two settlements on behalf of a class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein.  U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff granted final approval of the $290 million settlement between JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the class of...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit unanimously upheld Alabama-based U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor’s August 2022 approval of a $2.67 billion settlement, which followed nearly a decade of litigation involving allegations...

The following Boies Schiller Flexner partners were listed to Benchmark's 2023 40 & Under list - U.S. edition. Brooke AlexanderMarc AyalaPascual OliuThomas SosnowskiAndrew Villacastin 

In a much-awaited ruling, the U.K. Supreme Court held that the so-called Quincecare duty does not extend to banks in authorized push payment fraud situations. BSF attorneys David Hunt, Michael Jacobs, and Sagar Gupta consider the...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys and practices were recognized in the 2023 edition of Legal 500 USA. Chairman David Boies was included in the Hall of Fame for Antitrust: Civil Litigation/Class Action Plaintiff, and partner Ben Love is ranked as...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys and practices were singled out for inclusion in the Chambers USA 2023 rankings. The individual attorneys listed include: Chairman David Boies in Antitrust and Antitrust Mainly Plaintiff (New York and Nationwide),...

A new lawsuit filed today in New York federal court against defendants De Tomaso Automobili Holdings N.A. LLC, its majority shareholder, Sung-Fung “Norman” Choi, and others, will reverberate loudly across the world of limited edition,...

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...

Key Takeaways Certain YPF shareholders opted to sue the Argentine state in U.S. court under New York/Argentine law rather than commence investment-treaty arbitration (as other YPF shareholders did before ICSID in 2012). When sovereign conduct harms...

Recently Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted Spain’s motion to dismiss a petition to enforce an ECT award, holding that the court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction under the FSIA because...

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...

Judgment of the Supreme Court in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA and others [2022] UKSC 25 The UK Supreme Court considered the duty of company directors with respect to the interest of creditors pursuant to s.172(3) of the Companies Act 2006. The decision...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Sabria McElroy was selected as one of the nation’s top 40 lawyers under 40 by Bloomberg Law. In a Q&A with Bloomberg, Sabria answered questions about her practice, recent wins and what she is most proud of as a...

In an impetus to climate-related litigation in the UK, the English High Court held that the UK government's actions in formulating the Net Zero Strategy were unlawful and in violation of its obligations under the UK Climate Change Act. David Hunt and...

Green Power Partners K/S and SCE Solar Don Benito APS v. The Kingdom of Spain In a first after the Achmea and Komstroy judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, an investor-State arbitral tribunal denied jurisdiction based on the intra...

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,...

Summary: The Supreme Court’s decision bars the use of §1782 to seek evidence in support of a foreign-seated commercial or ad hoc investment arbitration. The position of arbitration under the ICSID Convention potentially remains open. 28...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys and practices were singled out for inclusion in the Chambers USA 2022 rankings. The individual attorneys listed include: Chairman David Boies in Antitrust and Antitrust Mainly Plaintiff (New York and Nationwide),...

On Thursday, April 21, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, in favor of BSF’s clients. The Supreme Court’s decision addressed an important choice of law issue in a...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office rose to Band 3 in the competitive Banking Litigation category and to Band 5 in Litigation in the latest edition of the Chambers UK rankings. The firm also maintained its Band 5 ranking in International...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office was recognized by Legal 500 UK for Commercial Litigation: Premium, Banking Litigation: Investment & Retail, International Arbitration, and Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime. In Commercial...

LGBTQ+ & Allies Affinity Group member Ted Uno talks about life as a bisexual man, his experience fostering children, Proposition 8 and the importance of celebrating differences. “Many of us in the LGBTQIA+ community have become experts in...

The U.K.'s data protection regulator — the Information Commissioner's Office — fined American Express Services Europe Ltd. £90,000 ($124,300) in May for sending more than 4 million unsolicited direct marketing emails to customers...

Boies Schiller Flexner was ranked by Law.com International as the top firm in the U.K. for representation of LGBTQ+ lawyers and partners. A Law.com survey of 64 firms found that Boies Schiller Flexner has both the highest proportion of U.K. lawyers...

Boies Schiller Flexner Managing Partner Sigrid McCawley was selected to receive University of Florida Law’s 2021 Outstanding Alumnus Award. This award honors alumni who have exemplified the UF Law ethos of excellence through personal...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office has risen to Band 4 in the Banking Litigation category, and to Band 5 in the International Arbitration: Commercial Arbitration category, in the recently published Chambers UK guide. The firm was also ranked in...

Boies Schiller Flexner associate Vanessa Tussey will speak at the University of Florida Levin College of Law's Two Centuries of the Equal Rights Amendment Symposium, in a panel on ERA litigation strategies. WHEN10:20 a.m.Friday, September...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Scott Gant discusses how to identify high-value antitrust claims and optimize claim value in a webinar with Burford Director Kelly Daley. WHEN3:00 p.m. EDTTuesday, September 15, 2020 Register here.

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...

Perhaps no government program in recent memory has better embodied the “building-the-plane-as-it-flies” analogy than the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A component of the CARES Act, the massive $659 billion program is intended to...

The Paycheck Protection Program, a component of the CARES Act intended to provide forgivable loans to small businesses as an incentive to keep workers on the payroll, exhausted its initial $349 billion appropriation on April 16, 2020. Congress...

Currently, there are “no FDA-approved drugs specifically for the treatment of patients with COVID-19,” per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is also no vaccine. But there are antiviral drugs that show promise in tests...

Columbia University Athletics dedicates its main basketball court to Boies Schiller Flexner Managing Partner Jonathan Schiller in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the university, its athletics department, and the men’s basketball...

Boies Schiller Flexner's London office leapt two tiers in Banking Litigation, rose in a further two categories, and debuted in Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime in Legal 500 UK's 2020 rankings, earning across-the-board mentions for the...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Scott Gant was quoted in an article in USA Today on the legal issues surrounding charges by the U.S. Justice Department against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “It appears at first blush that some of the charges...

BSF partners Meredith Dearborn and Maxwell Pritt will speak on lessons in trade secret law from the recent Waymo v. Uber trial in San Francisco on March 7.  Dearborn and Pritt will make up a panel organized by the Bar Association of San...

BSF and co-counsel secured a settlement on behalf of client Uber Technologies in a hotly contested trade secrets case brought by Waymo over the future of self-driving cars that was billed as the intellectual property trial of the century. At the...

In 2017, consumers in data breach lawsuits were vastly more successful at persuading federal appellate courts that they had pled a constitutional injury. This is a dramatic reversal in the trajectory of federal jurisprudence on “standing” in data...

Partner Matt Schwartz has been named a "rising New York star" for 2017 by Crain's New York Business. "Recruited to build his firm's global white-collar practice, Matthew L. Schwartz has in the past two years defneded the producers of The Wolf of Wall...

Lawyers from Boies, Schiller & Flexner's London office have again ranked high in the leading legal directories, Chambers UK and Legal 500. London Managing Partner Natasha Harrison was ranked in Band 1 for Banking Litigation by Chambers UK,...

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...

Over the past few years, there has been a quiet revolution in the state of corporate criminal law in the United Kingdom, as the country approaches ever closer to the American model of large settlements and huge fines. In 2011, the UK Bribery Act came...

The O'Jays Sound Off Against GOP's 'Unauthorized' Use of their Music at Republican Convention.

British publication Legal Business has shortlisted the London office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner for its U.S. Law Firm of the Year award for 2016. The award “highlights the U.S. firm that has made the greatest progress over the past year in...

PHILLY.COM: Mutual Fund Giant Sues Real Estate Mogul: 'Multi-year Fraud, Cover-up'

The following attorneys at Boies, Schiller & Flexner were recognized as Upstate New York Super Lawyers: Albany Carpinello, George F. 2007 - 2015 Iovieno, Philip J. 2013 – 2015 Nikas, Luke 2015

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...

On May 26, 2015, in Comptroller v. Wynne, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the State of Maryland’s refusal to give credit for income taxes paid to other states violated the Dormant Commerce Clause.  The Court held that Maryland’s tax...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, one of the leading litigation law firms, has joined with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) in efforts to represent the growing numbers of unaccompanied children who are placed in immigration removal proceedings.   Last...

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,...

Unilever Drops False Ad Lawsuit Against Just Mayo.

Unilever Faces Blowback in Mayonnaise False Ad War.

The following attorneys at Boies, Schiller & Flexner were recognized as Upstate New York Super Lawyers: Armonk Office Boies, David 2007 - 2014 Cyrulnik, Jason C. 2013 - 2014 Dumain, Ian M. 2011 - 2014 Green, Christopher M. 2013 -...

LAW360: Morgan Stanley Unit, Lloyd's Dodge $350M Insurance Suit (subscription)  

N.Y. Judge Bars Sale Of Whiskey Using Explorers Club TM.

On June 23, in a case argued by Boies, Schiller & Flexner Chairman David Boies, the Supreme Court upheld its 1988 decision in Basic v. Levinson, ensuring the continued viability of private securities class actions. In deciding Halliburton v....

LAW.COM: Family Gives Up Disputed Patent, Ending Trial With Boies' Client (subscription)

LAW360: AmEx To Spend Up To $79M In Surcharge Suit Settlement  

In a landmark civil rights ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has found in favor of BSF and co-counsel at Gibson Dunn that backers of Proposition 8, the ban against same-sex marriage in California, lacked standing to appeal the district court's finding...

On behalf of Starr International Inc., BSF filed a $25 billion class action and derivative lawsuit on November 22, 2011, in the United States Court of Federal Claims against the U.S. government. The lawsuit asserts unlawful taking of nearly 80% of...

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In a precedent-setting decision, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned a denial of class certification in a federal securities action being brought by BSF client Erica P. John Fund, Inc., and others against Halliburton.  The issue before the...

BSF partner and ABA president Stephen Zack addressed the ABA House of Delegates on February 14, 2011, during the ABA’s Midyear Meeting in Atlanta. An except from his speech:   We are fighting around the world for the rule of law; the rule of...

A decade ago this Sunday, a court decision was handed down that changed the course of American and world history; it also ended the most extraordinary case of my legal career. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against my client Vice President Al Gore...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — When UF Law graduate and former president of The Florida Bar Stephen N. Zack is sworn in as president of the American Bar Association in August, he will become the first Hispanic-American to take on the duty and will be the fifth...

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...

A lack of funding for the judiciary and rising court fees are among problems that are limiting access to the legal system for the poor, University of Florida graduate and incoming American Bar Association President Stephen Zack said Wednesday.

BSF represents the Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC), the challenger for the 33rd America’s Cup, in litigation in New York State Court against Societe Nautique de Geneve (SNG) the defender.  The litigation is to enforce a judgment obtained by...

BSF client, Courtroom View Network, and Partner, Jonathan Sherman continue their successful advocacy to allowing video cameras in federal courtrooms.  Recently, the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council, which oversees all trial courts in California and...

BSF managing partner David Boies has teamed up with former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, who battled against Boies in the historical Bush v. Gore Florida-recount case in the 2000 election, to challenge California's Proposition...

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...

May 13, 2009 While reporting on this breaking International Antitrust Case, Law360 spoke to BSF's Steven Holtzman. Holtzman, an antitrust partner, was asked for his opinion on how this action will affect the consumer and if the agencies acted quickly enough. Please click on the link below to read the whole story. Law360, May 13, 2009 EU's €1B Fine May Be Just The Start of Intel's Woes http://www.law360.com/registrations/user_registration?article_id=101277&concurrency_check=false

Governor Paterson named former BSF Partner and U.S. Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Please click onto the links below for the full stories. New York Magazine, June 7,...

Miami's Daily Business Review named BSF Partners Stuart Singer and Damien Marshall "Most Effective Lawyers 2008" in the area of Bankruptcy in December 2008 for their achievements in defending the former directors, officers and...

The Wall Street Journal reports on closing arguments held in the Nashville trial of Finish Line and UBS. The action, brought by Genesco, seeks to enforce a sale agreement repudiated by the purchaser as a result of the liquidity crisis and other...

 Short Hills, NJ, September 21, 2007, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and the United States Government in conjunction with various other Relators and their counsel have announced a comprehensive $499 million settlement of several False Claims Act...

Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg today sued current and former directors and management of American International Group ("AIG"), seeking to hold them liable for unnecessary and improper decisions to restate the company's earnings and pay a $1.6 billion...

David Shapiro, Administrative Partner of BSF's California office, was featured in the June issue of California Lawyer magazine. In the wake of the firing of U.S. Attorneys by the Bush Administration, the magazine sought out Mr. Shapiro, the...

David Boies (antitrust and litigation), Jonathan Schiller (international arbitration), Donald Flexner (antitrust), Stuart Singer (antitrust and litigation), and Richard Feinstein (antitrust) have been recognized by Chambers as among the most influential lawyers in the United States in their respective areas of practice.

Reporting that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed two verdicts obtained involving insurance coverage for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Boies, Schiller & Flexner announced today that partner Kirsten Gillibrand was elected to New York's 20th Congressional District. Kirsten waged a long and hard-fought campaign in her first run for political office. She defeated representative John...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP, and the United States Government have announced a $155 million settlement of a False Claims Act case against Medco Health Solutions, Inc. ("Medco") of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Medco is the second largest...

The firm was recognized for its "huge reputation as a litigation powerhouse" with experience "in every form of dispute resolution."  In particular, co-founder and managing partner Jonathan Schiller, head of the firm's domestic...

Reporting that BSF had filed Amended Complaint asserting class action claims against Genzyme Corporation over the elimination of one of its publicly-traded "tracking stocks." Plaintiffs seek damages as a result of alleged market manipulation by Genzyme intended to buy out the equity of certin minority shareholders at massive discount off of fair market value.

Described by a client as a lawyer who "gets newly discovered by every generation" and characterized as "a previously undiscovered species of superstar lawyer," David Boies was named by Time as a runner-up in its annual person of the year issue. ...

Customarily, United States Supreme Court opinions come unadorned, words on paper and nothing more. For the most part, the Justices rely on this venerable means of communication to great benefit.  Written opinions have an aura of dignity, and...