David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

playing a lot of bridge on the side. “It
was a great life. I could have gone on
like that for a while. But after our first
child was born, my wife became
increasingly serious-minded about my
future.” She brought home brochures and
pamphlets from local colleges and
universities. He remembered a
childhood fascination with the law and
decided that he would go to law school.
Today David Boies is one of the most
famous trial lawyers in the world.
How Boies went from a construction
worker with a high school education to
the top of the legal profession is a
puzzle, to say the least. The law is built
around reading—around cases and
opinions and scholarly analyses—and