Boies

David Boies, who helped engineer a major high court victory for same-sex marriage in 2013, will deliver a talk titled "Litigation as a Tool of Social Change" Thursday, Oct. 22, at 5:30 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium. The talk is the keynote address of this year's Trustee-Council Annual Meeting and will be live streamed. It is free and open to the public.

Boies is chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner and is considered by many to be the country's premier litigator. He argued the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election. Boies was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine in 2010, and he has been named Global International Litigator of the Year by Who's Who Legal an unprecedented seven times.

He has been involved in numerous high-profile cases in the United States, with clients including Altria, American Express, Apple, Barclays, CBS, DuPont, Heartheaded Productions, HSBC, NASCAR, the New York Yankees, Oracle, Sony, Starr International, Theranos and The Weinstein Co.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Cornell University Council, the Law School, the ILR School and ILR's Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution.