conceivable analysis of the issue at
hand. Time and again, they get bogged
down in excessive detail. Boies doesn’t.
One of his most famous cases
—Hollingsworth v. Schwarzenegger^3 —
involved a California law limiting
marriage to a man and woman. Boies
was the attorney arguing that the law
was unconstitutional, and in the trial’s
most memorable exchange, Boies
destroyed the other side’s key expert
witness, David Blankenhorn, getting him
to concede huge chunks of Boies’s case.
“One of the things you tell a witness
when you’re preparing them is take your
time,” Boies said. “Even when you don’t
need to. Because there will be some
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