Editing David Boies (section)

==Early life and education==
Boies was born in [[Sycamore, Illinois]],<ref name="bsfllp profile">{{cite web|url=http://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/data/0001|title=David Boies profile|work=bsfllp.com|access-date=June 15, 2015|archive-date=June 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626092559/http://www.bsfllp.com/lawyers/data/0001|url-status=dead}}</ref> to two teachers, and raised in a rural, farming community.<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law|author=Newman, R.K.|date=2009|publisher=[[Yale University Press]]|isbn=9780300113006|url=https://archive.org/details/yalebiographical00newm|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/yalebiographical00newm/page/57 57]|access-date=December 7, 2014}}</ref> He has four siblings. His first job was when he was 10 years old—a paper route with 120 customers. Boies has [[dyslexia]] and he did not learn to read until the third grade.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9407E7D71639F937A35752C1A9679C8B63&emc=rss | work=[[The New York Times]] | title=Private Sector; For a Hardened Lawyer, A Tender Personal Moment | first=Laurence | last=Zuckerman | date=November 4, 2001 | access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref> Journalist [[Malcolm Gladwell]] has described the unique processes of reading and learning Boies experienced due to his dyslexia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/books/review/malcolm-gladwells-david-and-goliath.html|title=Killing Giants|last=Nocera|first=Joe|date=2013-10-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-12-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Boies' mother, for instance, would read stories to him when he was a child, and Boies would memorize them because he could not follow the words on the page.<ref>Gladwell, Malcolm (2013). David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants. New York: Little, Brown and Company, p. 107.</ref>

In 1954, the family moved to [[California]]. Boies graduated from [[Fullerton Union High School]] in [[Fullerton, California]]. Boies attended the [[University of Redlands]], in Redlands, California, from 1960 to 1962,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/2013/03/26/david-boies-presenting-case-to-supreme-court-has-ties-to-redlands/|title=David Boies, presenting case to Supreme Court, has ties to Redlands|last=Cappis|first=Greg|date=March 26, 2013|work=[[Redlands Daily Facts]]|access-date=March 5, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> received a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] degree from [[Northwestern University]] in 1964, a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]] degree ''[[magna cum laude]]'' from [[Yale Law School]] in 1966 and a  [[Master of Laws|LL.M.]] degree from [[New York University School of Law]] 1967; he was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D.]] from the [[University of Redlands]] in 2000.<ref name=":0" /> He is on the board of trustees of the [[National Constitution Center]] in [[Philadelphia]], which is a museum dedicated to the [[U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.constitutioncenter.org/ncc_about_Board_of_Trustees.aspx |title=National Constitution Center, Board of Trustees |access-date=July 27, 2010 |date=July 26, 2010 |work=National Constitution Center Web Site |publisher=[[National Constitution Center]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615033447/http://constitutioncenter.org/ncc_about_Board_of_Trustees.aspx |archive-date=June 15, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>