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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 recognized in the 2024 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 was ranked as a...

The National Law Journal singled out Managing Partner Sigrid McCawley and our Class Actions practice group for recognition at ALM’s 2024 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards. The publication announced that Sigrid was chosen as a winner in the Elite Women of...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP announced today that John Lyons has joined the firm as a partner in its New York City office. John will focus his practice on the defense of companies against class actions and individual claims in state and federal court,...

Boies Schiller Flexner Chairman David Boies and partners Mark Mao and James Lee were chosen as The American Lawyer's Litigators of the Week for their work on behalf of a class of Google users.  Google agreed to delete billions of data records it...

UPDATE: On October 24, 2023, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth for the District of Columbia granted the addition of prejudgment interest at the rate of approximately 5% to the $299 million that was awarded in August to preferred shareholders of...

Earlier this year, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California jury found Tesla CEO Elon Musk not liable for losses incurred by investors who accused him of fraud based on his tweets in August 2018, in which he said he was...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Hamish Hume was featured in The American Lawyer's “Under the Hood” story about the decade-long Blue Cross Blue Shield Multidistrict Litigation.  This week the court gave final approval to our...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys were listed in the Top Lawyers issue of Ft. Lauderdale Illustrated magazine. They have been selected by Broward County peers as best in their field. Managing Partner, Sigrid McCawley – Commercial...

Boies Schiller Flexner and its co-counsel Towards Justice today announced a historic $65.5 million settlement in their au pair class action suit, Beltran v. Interexchange, Inc. The lawsuit, originally filed in November 2014, alleged that fifteen...

Corporate Counsel magazine's cover story featured BSF's litigation against Chiquita Brands over security payments the company made to Colombian groups designated as terrorist organizations. Lee Woloksy, who along with Douglass Mitchell is...

Boies, Schiller & Flexner Chairman David Boies and partner Carl Goldfarb were recognized as Litigators of the Week by the American Lawyer's Litigation Daily for a long-running securities class action that ended in a $100 million settlement...

Partner Hamish Hume was quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other media this week after arguing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on April 15 on behalf of shareholders who object to the government’s sweep of Fannie...

Partners Stuart Singer and Carl Goldfarb received media attention after reaching a settlement that will improve access to medical and dental care for more than two million children covered by Florida’s Medicaid program. The New York Times and...

The Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (“FCAAP”), the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (“FAPD”), Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, and the Public Interest Law Center announce that a settlement has been...

Partners Stuart Singer in Fort Lauderdale and David Barrett in New York were honored as “Litigators of the Week” by AmLaw’s Litigation Daily for their recoveries for investors in Bernard Madoff feeder funds. The honor came after the announcement last...

A federal court of appeals decision recently created a sharp circuit split regarding the requirements for certifying class actions in cases involving consumer purchases of inexpensive items where consumers are not likely to have retained their...

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Apple Trial Likely To Go On With New Plaintiff

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....

On July 10, 2013, BSF filed a class action complaint against the United States under the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution for appropriating all of the economic rights of the junior preferred stockholders in Fannie Mae and Freddie...

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...

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...

On November 3, 2010, BSF filed a motion for court approval of a settlement in Pokorny v. Quixtar (Amway), a class action case in federal court in the N.D. California. BSF represents a class of several hundred thousand current and former distributors...

BSF recently won a complete defense victory in the trial of a nationwide class action brought against American Express in California Superior Court.  The Court agreed with the Firm that American Express' agreement with cardmembers...

Reporting that litigation between Genzyme Corporation and former shareholders involving use of "tracking stock" has settled. Genzyme will pay the plainitff class $64 million in cash subject to approval by the Court. BSF acted as lead...

Former shareholders of Genzyme Corp.’s Biosurgery Division and their counsel at Boies, Schiller & Flexner won a "major legal victory" when a New York federal judge ruled their case against Genzyme could go forward. According to the plaintiffs,...

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.