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Article snippet: David Boies may be best known for taking on nationally prominent political cases before the Supreme Court, including Bush v. Gore and the fight to legalize gay marriage. But it’s his role as a hard-nosed litigator representing corporations and executives that has earned him lavish payouts but created potential ethical issues — so much so, it has forced his firm to step away from several cases. In 2006, the cable company Adelphia asked his firm to resign from a bankruptcy case after it was disclosed that the firm had advised Adelphia to hire a document-management company partly owned by his children. Last year, Mr. Boies’s firm parted ways with Theranos, the blood-testing company it represented in a series of government investigations, in part because of disagreements over legal strategy with the Theranos board, on which he served. Now Mr. Boies, 76, is again drawing fire for the perception of conflict of interest, after a report in The New Yorker on Monday outlined legal work he did for Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul facing a wave of allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault. The article reported that Mr. Boies had helped execute a contract with a private investigation firm that Mr. Weinstein hired to help block a negative article about him in The New York Times. Mr. Boies’s firm, Boies Schiller Flexner, has provided outside legal counsel for The Times three times in the last 10 years, including one libel case. The article said the investigative firm... Link to the full article to read more