Each side in the Oracle v. Google battle is relying on a small army of lawyers to make its case, and their roles became clearer as the first week of trial wrapped up in U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s San Francisco courtroom.
David Boies, of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, is there to handle executive-size egos: The lawyer famous for grilling Bill Gates in the 1999 Microsoft Corp. antitrust prosecution conducted the direct exam of Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison, who is said to be a personal friend, as well as a testy exam of Google Inc.’s Larry Page. Boies sought to humanize Ellison and demonize Page, though observers seemed split as to whether Page looked evasive or just young and awkward.
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