Litigator David Boies and the law firm he founded, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, have stopped doing legal work for Theranos Inc. after disagreeing about the strategy for handling ongoing government investigations of the blood-testing company, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Boies, 75 years old, has been one of the country’s best-known litigators since the late 1990s. He became Theranos’s outside counsel after being approached in 2011 by two investors in the Palo Alto, Calif., startup. He fiercely defended...
Flexner LLP and his law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP and David Boies will no longer undertake legal work for Theranos following a disagreement about the strategy for handling ongoing governmental investigations of the blood-testing firm. Theranos is currently undergoing criminal and civil investigations by the San Francisco attorney’s office in US for suspicions that the firm misled investors and regulators about its technology and operations.