Boies Schiller SF Forum

[smoove27]

Anyone have any recent insight into BSF SF office? Ideally looking for lit boutique in Bay Area, and BSF came up. I just can't figure out if it's a good place to be a first year -- used to be super highly regarded, but lost a bunch of people, restructured, David Boies is old, etc. Still, high bonuses and they do both regular defense and plaintiff work.

[Anonymous User]

Anyone have any recent insight into BSF SF office? Ideally looking for lit boutique in Bay Area, and BSF came up. I just can't figure out if it's a good place to be a first year -- used to be super highly regarded, but lost a bunch of people, restructured, David Boies is old, etc. Still, high bonuses and they do both regular defense and plaintiff work.

I interviewed a couple of years and everyone in my CB left, I didn't get a good vibe of the office for the long-term

[Anonymous User]

Do they in fact still do notable defense side work? Seems like it's a plaintiff's firm now with occasional/residual defense-side clients from connections of the older/soon-to-be-retired partners.

[smoove27]

Do they in fact still do notable defense side work? Seems like it's a plaintiff's firm now with occasional/residual defense-side clients from connections of the older/soon-to-be-retired partners.

That's what I'm worried about. It seems like most of their defense side work was before 2020, and the offices don't work together on issues -- almost like they're franchises. I'm just trying to weigh the value of small office + substantive experience even if it's mostly plaintiff-side vs generic BL lit if it comes down to those types of opportunities.