Jonathan Boies

Jonathan Boies, a son of renowned trial lawyer David Boies and one of the first hires at the law firm that became Boies Schiller Flexner, died on Feb. 22 2019 of complications related to a vascular brain condition. The cause was a rare condition called arteriovenous malformation, which impacts blood vessels that connect to arteries and veins in the brain. Boies would have turned 51 later this month. Another of David Boies’ adult children, Caryl Boies, died in 2010 at the age of 48, following a years-long battle with lung cancer. At the time of her death, Caryl Boies was a litigation partner at Boies Schiller Flexner. She had previously founded the firm’s Fort Lauderdale, Florida, office. Caryl Boies was one of two children from David Boies’ first marriage, which ended in divorce. Jonathan, a graduate of the University of Redlands in California and Tulane Law School, and one of two children David Boies had with his second wife, Judith Boies, was the first associate David Boies hired after he split from Cravath, Swaine & Moore in the late 1990s. Jonathan Boies had left his father’s firm to pursue business ventures as an entrepreneur, and had stopped practicing law. But he remained part of the extended Boies Schiller family, said Nicholas Gravante Jr., a partner in New York and a member of Boies Schiller’s executive committee. Among Boies’ business ventures was a document processing and management company he founded called SiteLogic Technologies LLC, which he eventually sold in 2015. In the years since, he was involved in an organic farming business known as Diamond B Farms and a family-owned vineyard in Lake County, California, which uses organic methods to produce wine. Jonathan Boies is survived by his father, David Boies; his mother Judith Boies and her husband Robert Christman; his teenage son, Joshua; his ex-wife Jodie Boies; his twin brother Christopher Boies; brothers David Boies III and Alexander Boies; and sister Mary Regency Boies.