We’re taking a break from our roster of megafirms to speak with Alan Vickery, hiring partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. As every law student knows, the firm was founded by litigation superstar and former Cravath partner David Boies and a handful of other lawyers in 1997. The urban — or suburban — legend is that the firm started in Boies’s garage in Armonk, New York. Now at 240 lawyers with a thriving Manhattan office, the firm is a litigation dynamo that reported profits per partner of $2.88 million in 2009.

The Boies legend must loom large at your firm. Is the place full of baby Boieses–sharp, iconoclastic law grads with a taste for gambling?

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