COURTING JUSTICE: FROM NY YANKEES V. MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TO BUSH V. GORE 1997-2000
Book ID/图书代码： 06540005B00977
English Summary/英文概要： New York Yankees v. Major League Baseball; General Westmoreland v. CBS; FDIC v. Michael Milken; United States v. Microsoft; Bush v. Gore. In each of these landmark cases, one man, David Boies, has held center stage.
Dubbed by the New York Times "the lawyer everyone wants," Boies has indeed been courted by government and major corporations alike, and by a host of the famous and powerful. His clients have included Calvin Klein; Don Imus; George Steinbrenner; and Garry Shandling, as well as companies such as DuPont; Altria; Lloyd’s of London; and American Express. He has won record-breaking damages for consumers in cases against Sotheby’s and Christie’s and from major pharmaceutical companies worldwide, for price-fixing. His combination of legal know-how, meticulous preparation, and high-risk tactics at trial has earned him the sobriquet "the Michael Jordan of the courtroom."
Written in the straightforward, sympathetic style that characterizes his courtroom presence, Courting Justice examines the varied clientele, behind-the-scenes dramas, and eleventh-hour strategies that have catapulted Boies to the top of the legal profession. His memoir ranges from his now-famous deposition of Bill Gates to the media-saturated battles of defending Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 Florida recount frenzy. when for days on end it was this one laconic nonpolitician who was asked to explain to the American people how their president was being decided.
Through gripping accounts of some of his most notable cases, Boies brings to life not only his high-profile battles in and out of court but the details of his own life, from an unassuming boyhood in small-town Illinois and adolescence on the streets of Compton, to his brief career as a cardsharp (which helped hone his photographic memory), his lifelong fight with dyslexia and the lessons he learned in law schools—one of which he was asked to leave.
Inspiring, revealing, and compulsively readable, Courting Justice is an insider’s look at the American legal system, highlighting both its strengths and its weaknesses, the ways it can be abused and the ways in which, at its best, it defends our liberties.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Boies，我们这代中最出名的律师之一，在他的这本精彩的自传中，与我们分享他是如何与那些精力充沛的客户打交道地，以及他所处理过的重大案例：他曾担任过指控Michael Milken 和Drexel Burnham Lambert的控诉官；还为哥伦比亚广播公司在William Westmoreland.对其提起的诽谤控诉案中做辩护；接着就是帮美国司法部打了一场漂亮仗：在针对微软的反托拉斯起诉中胜诉了；还帮Napster斗败了唱片业。Boies又一次站在了舞台中央，在佛罗里达洲最高法院上，为副总统克尔辩护。这本棒极了的自传书走进了那些曾经备受关注的案例背后，窥视了Boies职业操守，分析了他在每一个案例背后的运筹帷幄。
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About the Author/作者介绍： David Boies is a founding partner of the law firm Boies, Schiller and Flexner, where three of his six children are now lawyers. He and his wife (and fellow lawyer) Mary live in Westchester, New York.
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