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...
David Boies and his law firm, Boies Schiller and Flexner LLP will no longer undertake legal work for Theranos following a disagreement about the strategy for handling ongoing governmental investigations of the blood-testing firm. The decision to end its relationship with Theranos, which was announced in July, comes as federal prosecutors are investigating whether the company misled investors by overstating how well it could perform tests on human blood.