To: Dermot Burke who wrote (20670 ) 8/14/1998 11:58:00 AM From: Daniel Schuh Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Dermot, did you check the date on that one? This has been delayed indefinitely. Good story anyway. From this, it looks like everybody is looking forward to Gates vs. Boies. Some quotes: seattletimes.com The deposition, to be taken from Gates on Microsoft's Redmond campus tomorrow and Thursday, provides a dramatic prelude to next month's trial in the government's antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. It pits Gates, the world's richest man, against David Boies, the Justice Department's outside counsel whose cross-examinations of corporate icons such as Ted Turner and Carl Ichan have won him renown in legal circles. Boies' clever and relentless questioning prowess is renowned stretching back to his days on the Wall Street legal team representing IBM against the Justice Department's broad antitrust lawsuit, a fight that lasted 13 years. During the lawsuit, for example, Boies cross-examined Alan McAdams, the government's chief antitrust economist, for 38 days and once deposed him for 10 days straight. "Boies can be very annoying," McAdams said yesterday. "The questioning clearly was not an attempt to understand the positions I was taking and the logic of the positions. The only explanation I could see was an attempt to get me to say things I didn't want to say."
