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Flexner

American  
[fleks-ner] / ˈflɛks nər /

noun

  1. Abraham, 1866–1959, U.S. educator.

  2. his brother Simon, 1863–1946, U.S. pathologist and bacteriologist.


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Sigrid McCawley, a managing partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, questioned the value of information Maxwell could provide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Mr. Boies is a founding partner of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Boies Schiller Flexner is a large, well-known firm with 13 offices in three countries and more than 170 attorneys listed on its website.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

Chutkan later joined the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, where she defended clients in white-collar cases and represented plaintiffs in antitrust class action lawsuits.

From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2023

It is one of the most frequent and fatal of what Flexner described a decade ago as "terminal infections."

From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson

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