For the Wall Street Journal he named a five best list of books about trial lawyers at work. One title on the list:
Read about the other four books on the list.Courting Justice
by David Boies
Hyperion, 2004
In "Courting Justice," David Boies captures the life of a business trial lawyer, especially the way it often requires the simultaneous immersion in multiple, unrelated proceedings and different casts of characters—all of which the lawyer has to keep straight. One of the most interesting cases he describes is the antitrust action that the Justice Department, represented by Boies, brought against Microsoft in 1998. Bill Gates, who might have been a powerful voice for the company, was effectively neutered as a trial witness, thanks to his overly clever fencing with Boies at his deposition. It's a basic lesson that all litigators learn—at least the successful ones: A witness cannot be credible at trial if he has not been credible at deposition. The book brims with such hard-won insights.
--Marshal Zeringue
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