His father worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and his mother worked at the U.S. Office of Price Administration, as well as the National Labor Relations Board, before joining the faculty at Howard University College of Medicine and becoming a nationally recognized sex and marriage therapist.
[8] In 1986, Westinghouse, a client of his, decided to assign a civil corruption case alleging bribery of Ferdinand Marcos, ex-President of the Philippines, to David Boies at Cravath, Swaine & Moore instead of Schiller's litigation boutique.
[9] Previously, Schiller had successfully defended Westinghouse on two occasions, so he was invited by Boies to team up on behalf of the company.
[2] The two formed a close friendship, and in 1997, founded the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
[24][25] He is currently married to Marla Prather, an art collector and former Whitney Museum curator who is the ex-wife of Mortimer Zuckerman.