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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...

Boies Schiller Flexner Managing Partner Sigrid McCawley has been chosen by The American Lawyer as an Attorney of the Year finalist for her extensive work representing victims of sexual abuse. Sigrid has dedicated years to the pro bono representation...

A team from Boies Schiller Flexner, along with the Center for Reproductive Rights and local counsel, won a preliminary injunction in Baton Rouge today that will allow clinics in Louisiana to continue to provide important care to their patients while...

Boies Schiller Flexner attorneys Joanna Wright, Sabina Mariella, Brianna Hills, and Lindsey Ruff were profiled yesterday when they obtained emergency relief enjoining the enforcement of Louisiana’s trigger laws that purport to ban abortion. As...

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court of the United States’ decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Center for Reproductive Rights and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, with local counsel Ellie Schilling, today filed a petition and request for...

BSF attorneys filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of the final three states that ratified the ERA. Nevada, Illinois, and Virginia are suing the national Archivist to require him to record the ERA as the...

Lawyers from Boies Schiller Flexner LLP today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on behalf of 26 organizations advocating for the certification of the 28th Amendment, also known as the Equal Rights...

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of more than 500 athletes—including U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team forward Megan Rapinoe, WNBA All-Star Layshia Clarendon, and more than two dozen...

Boies Schiller Flexner pro bono client, Michael DeLeon, was released from prison on Thanksgiving Day, concluding the firm’s six-year pro bono representation of Mr. DeLeon. In 2008, when DeLeon was seventeen, the police searched DeLeon’s...

Boies Schiller Flexner, along with co-counsel at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Lambda Legal, has filed an amicus brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a transgender woman who was sexually assaulted while incarcerated...

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...

Sigrid McCawley takes part in a discussion of the bravery, dedication, and hard work of the survivors, attorneys, police officers, investigators, and others to bring Jeffrey Epstein's abuses to light. She is joined by fellow survivors' attorney...

Boies Schiller Flexner Partner Sigrid McCawley, who represents several Jeffrey Epstein survivors, spoke with Nightline's Juju Chang about the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell. “This morning was a very joyful and tearful filled morning. It was a...

Boies Schiller Flexner is one of 18 leading private law firms joining an ACLU of Louisiana Litigation Campaign Against Racist Policing Practices in the wake of the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and many others. The...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Sigrid McCawley is interviewed in “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” a Netflix docuseries about sexual abuse and trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein. The series also features extensive interviews with four of the...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Sigrid McCawley was profiled among the American Lawyer's Litigators of the Year. McCawley has been focused for years on her representation of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, helping to build the record of evidence...

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 was featured in the Winter 2019-2020 issue of Fort Lauderdale's Venice Magazine, in a four-page article about her award-winning work bringing justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.

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...

Boies Schiller Flexner partner Sigrid McCawley was named a Litigator of the Year by the American Lawyer. McCawley was nominated for her tireless work over the past five years representing Virginia Giuffre, Sarah Ransome, and other victims of sex...

Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office secured an important victory for its pro bono client, ClientEarth, an environmental law charity, in litigation before the Polish Courts. ClientEarth successfully challenged a board resolution in connection...

Boies Schiller Flexner lawyers Amy Neuhardt, Howard Vickery, Joseph Alm, Menno Goedman, and Bibeane Metsch were named to the District of Columbia Courts’ Pro Bono Honor Roll. The Roll recognizes attorneys who have...

A coalition of law firms led by David Boies of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, and The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) today announced the filing of four landmark lawsuits challenging the winner-take-all method states use to allocate...

Boies Schiller Flexner and Swords to Plowshares filed an amicus brief in support of the petitioners in Monk v. Shulkin, who are seeking to aggregate a class of all veterans whose disability benefits appeals before the Department of Veterans Affairs...

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...

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...

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...

Partner Charles Fox Miller and associate Lauren Alperstein of the firm’s Hollywood, Florida, office were named Attorneys of the Month by Legal Aid Service of Broward County for providing pro bono services to a veteran in need of legal assistance. Mr....

Boies, Schiller & Flexner partner Rick Pocker has become a founding member of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration, a group of current and former law enforcement leaders dedicated to pushing reforms that will reduce...

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...

Today, federal Judge Adalberto Jordan found that the 1.9 million children who depend on the Florida Medicaid program for their medical and dental care are not receiving the care required by federal law.   Dr. Tommy Schechtman, President of the...

BSF partners Stuart Singer and Carl Goldfarb are leading a team of attorneys providing pro bono services for the 1.7 million Florida children on Medicaid and their advocates in a federal trial that began on December 7, 2009.  BSF...

BSF continues to work alongside the non-profit organization Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), founded by actress Angelina Jolie and Microsoft Corporation, to provide pro bono legal counsel and representation to undocumented...

BSF Miami partner Bruce A. Weil's extensive pro bono work has earned him the Attorney of the Year Award by the Dade County Bar Association's Legal Aid program and its highly renowned pro bono project, "Put Something Back."  Mr. Weil has...

Magda Jimenez Train Selected for Participation in the Executive Leadership Program for Latina Lawyers

The 2O1O American Lawyer Pro Bono Report ranks Boies, Schiller & Flexner 68th out of 2OO surveyed firms -- a marked improvement from last year's ranking of 89th and 132nd in 2OO8.  The Firm is prominently mentioned in one of five...

In response to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010, BSF associate Markenzy Lapointe has worked tirelessly in all facets of the relief. As part of the Haiti Relief Task Force, Lapointe has met with state and federal officials,...

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.

The law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP recently won the right to seek post-conviction DNA testing for their client Robert Breest.  Chief Judge Steven McAuliffe of the United States District Court for the District of New...

The Daily Business Review, the paper of record for the South Florida legal and business communities, reports that a team of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP attorneys is suing the state of Florida, in landmark pro bono litigation, on behalf of 1.6...

The Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor reports on the litigation between the BSF's pro bono client, Robert Breest, and the State of New Hampshire. The firm represents Mr. Breest in a federal lawsuit seeking access to biological evidence for the purpose...

Announcing settlement in litigation in which BSF worked with the ACLU Womens' Rights Project in representing Latina housekeepers at the Broadway Plaza Hotel. The allegations had involved sexual harassment and wage and hours violations; the terms of...

Reporting on litigation initiated by BSF on behalf of the Florida Pediatric Society against the State of Florida claiming the State’s healthcare system has neglected low-income children. The complaint alleges that 1.6 million children in Florida do...