# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-boies
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:26:06.287Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-boies"
name: "David Boies"
slug: "david-boies"
description: "David Boies is an American lawyer who is the chairman of the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. He became known for leading the U.S. federal government's successful prosecution of Microsoft in United States v. Microsoft Corp., his unsuccessful representation of Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in Bush v. Gore, and for successful representation of the plaintiff in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which invalidated California Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage. Boies has also represented various clients in U.S. lawsuits, including Theranos, tobacco companies, Harvey Weinstein, and Jeffrey Epstein's victims including Virginia Roberts Giuffre."
tagline: "American lawyer and chairman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Boies_2011_Shankbone.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1941-03-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.347101333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1197130/"
    handle:    "nm1197130"
sources:
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    title: "David Boies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديڤيد بويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies"
    title: "David Boies"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies"
    title: "David Boies"
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    title: "دیوید بویز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boies"
    title: "David Boies"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5231515"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1118159"
    title: "David Boies III"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump