Quotes about lawyers

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

Justice isn’t about fixing the past it’s about healing the past's future.

It was not the job of a litigator to determine facts it was his job to construct a story from those facts by which a clear moral conclusion would be unavoidable.

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that's where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They're the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the system could be reformed.

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Trudeau: Yes well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go on and bleed but it is more important to keep law and order in a society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who we don't like the looks of. Reporter: At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well just watch me. . . ."

When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured you were 95."

You are remembered for the rules you break.

Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.

Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.

Show me the man and I'll show you the law.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.

In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Every new time will give its law.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled undisciplined feeling.

A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.

I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

Well I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

However...," Satan said.Bick sighed. "However, I didn't count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and more."Lucifer chuckled. "Sorry about that-I outdid myself there.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do

We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane phrases to express commonplace ideas. Seeking to be precise, we become redundant. Seeking to be cautious, we become verbose. Our sentences twist on, phrase within clause within clause, glazing the eyes and numbing the minds of our readers. The result is a writing style that has, according to one critic, four outstanding characteristics. It is (1) wordy, (2) unclear, (3) pompous, and (4) dull

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

The law works in mysterious ways

The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.

Fourth, I paid attention to every detail I could while working on my cases. I found that one of the most ironic facets of the law is that the correct answer to a problem often rests on small legal nuances and factual details. The presence or absence of a particular fact can frequently make or break the case. The senior attorney I worked for, Brad, was extremely adept at assimilating large amounts of information quickly, paying close attention to details, and using his mastery of them to weave br

I also quickly came to appreciate the importance of watching what’s said around clients. When clients make unexpected requests for legal advice – as they often do – I learned that it was better to tell them I’d get back to them with an answer, and go away, research the question, and consult with a supervising attorney, rather than firing back an answer off-the-cuff.A friend of mine at another firm told me a story that illustrates the risks of saying too much. It seems an insurance company had en

If your firm gives you a choice of departments, think carefully about which practice area will best suit your personality. Keep in mind that your specialty will affect not only the type of legal services you’ll perform, but also the skills and knowledge you’ll develop. And it’s important to remember that at a large firm, you’ll likely only get one choice. There are very few attorneys at large firms who have more than one specialty, or change specialties down the road. As a result, the first choi

If life was fair ... one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... one third of police and prison officials ... and one third of legislators ... and one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.

A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged with destroying the barley crop and also with ignoring the court order to appear and defend themselves. Bartholomé Chassenée argued successfully that the rats hadn't come because the court had failed to provide reasonable protection from the village cats along the route.

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.