Boies survived those episodes with his aura intact. Inside the firm’s offices, he and his lieutenants expect nothing different this time around. They’re sure they’ll outlast the current wave of moral outrage—and even imagine themselves on the right side of history. “I’m old enough to remember when nobody ever wanted to defend anybody who was accused of being a communist, whether they were a communist or not,” Boies says. “Today, it’s really dangerous to defend anyone who is accused of being a terrorist, again, whether they are or not. I think that the issue of sexual assault and sexual harassment falls into that category a little bit today. That is not necessarily a bad thing.”

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Weinstein isn’t the only power player in the Boies orbit who became a client and friend. Boies appeared on Charlie Rose’s show for the first time in 1999, and the two shared an apartment together in Paris, according to Karen Donovan’s 2005 book v. Goliath: The Trials of David Boies. A few years later, when Radar named Rose a “toxic bachelor,” reporting a woman’s claim that he groped her, Boies sent a letter demanding a retraction. The magazine declined. Last month, a Washington Post investigation revealed Rose’s alleged history of sexual harassment. (He declined to comment for this story.)

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At Cravath, Boies represented pro bono a Florida woman named Amy Habie, who was in a vicious custody battle with a Guatemalan textile baron. Boies’s family also had a stake in a landscaping business Habie acquired in Palm Beach. The relationship puzzled the firm’s lawyers. “We represent plenty of people pro bono—in discrimination cases and death penalty cases, for example—but wives of Guatemalan tycoons are not exactly what we have in mind,” Samuel Butler, Cravath’s presiding partner, told the Wall Street Journal in 1997. (Butler hung up the phone when reached for comment.)

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When Avery Gilbert read that statement, she was beside herself. Gilbert had been an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, and before leaving in 2010, she’d believed the firm had stifled her complaints to management about a document management vendor called Boalt Discovery Inc. While working on a multibillion-dollar private equity lawsuit, she’d become suspicious about Boalt. Not only did she think its work was bad and expensive, she suspected that Gravante had a family connection to the business. She complained and was later fired. Reading Boies’s assurance to colleagues about his character, she was so infuriated that she emailed him asking to talk. She wanted an apology but didn’t get one. (This account is from an interview with Gilbert’s husband, Zachary Bendiner, who worked at the firm as a paralegal; he says she signed a nondisclosure agreement and he didn’t.) Boies Schiller Flexner colleagues say neither Gravante nor his family had an interest in Boalt and that Gilbert was let go for other reasons, which the firm declines to discuss.

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