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March 25, 2005
Top Trial Lawyer to Receive Prestigious
Book Award at Touro
David Boies’s Autobiography Documents Some
of
Our Generation’s Biggest Cases
Huntington, NY –
David Boies will receive the legal
field’s top literary award at a special ceremony at Touro Law
Center on Tuesday, April 12, at 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium.
One of the country’s most celebrated modern trial lawyers, Boies
will be honored with the 16th
Annual Bruce K. Gould Award at the Huntington school for his new
book, “Courting Justice: From New York Yankees vs. Major League
Baseball to Bush vs. Gore, 1997-2000.”
Each year, Touro Law Center honors
the best work of fiction or non-fiction of the past year on a
law-related subject. Previous winners include: Sandra Day
O’Connor, Alan Dershowitz, Vernon Jordan, Robert Shapiro, Anita
Hill and the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan.
The Bruce K. Gould Award is named for
its benefactor, a principal in Gould Publications, one of the
nation’s largest legal publishers. Gould is an alumnus of
Touro
Law Center, class of 1984, and a former president of the Student
Bar Association.
Boies, a founding partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, with
offices nationwide, has participated in many of the major cases
of our time: United States v. Microsoft; Bush v. Gore; the New
York Yankees v. Major League Baseball; CBS v. Gen. William
Westmoreland; U.S. v. Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham, and A&M
Records v. Napster. Written in the straightforward style that
defines his courtroom presence, his book “Courting Justice” is
the self-portrait of an attorney who legal watchers have dubbed
“the Michael Jordan of the courtroom.”
Touro is currently undertaking a bold
strategic plan that includes a cutting-edge new curriculum and a
move to a new home in Central Islip by fall 2006, adjacent to
and working with state and federal courts. The new campus will
stress hands-on legal education, expanding learning from the
classroom and textbooks into real courtrooms. The total cost of
the project is expected to be approximately $33 million. This
modern, 180,000-square-foot “law campus” will be the first of
its kind anywhere and a national model. It will also be a
cornerstone in an effort to revitalize Central Islip.
One of just a handful of law schools
nationwide with a public service requirement for its graduates,
Touro Law School welcomed a record-setting entering class this
year. Selectivity and test scores for the 24-year-old
institution are at an all-time high. Suffolk County’s only law
school, Touro has a student body of over 750.
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