Quotes from Sheldon Siegel

McNasty. "Is that enough?" "Not

I used to joke about the fact that I crammed eighty years of guilt into the first twenty years of my life. It

system and encouraging our clients' friends to intimidate witnesses. More people read the Chronicle than the State Bar Journal, and the mayor

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

lowered her husky voice. "How close were you

career-interruption event

trial. That's bad for business in the PD's office. The supervisors are paid for disposing of

articles. Every woman in

her. "I couldn't get down from the roof without being seen." Plausible enough. "I can understand why you were watching Doe, but why did the archdiocese ask you to keep an eye on her attorney?" "Belt-and-suspenders lawyering. They wanted to discredit the messenger–especially if she was a depressed, quasi-suicidal loon who had a grudge against the archdiocese." "Was she?" "Not

and Money." Judge Tsang's usually stoic bailiff smiled as he swore Archer in. Archer

me if you knew something, but you couldn't

It isn't his fault he was born without a personality. You don't get to choose your gene pool.

I give to my son, Richard Andrew MacArthur, Jr., if he survives me, all my interest in any and all cash, securities, individual retirement accounts, pension plans, profit sharing plans, stock bonus plans, other qualified retirement plans, real and personal property of any nature, furniture, fixtures, automobiles and all other tangible articles of a household or personal nature, together with all insurance policies

a stretch to me." It begs the obvious question. "Pete

With the benefit of age and parenthood, I've started to appreciate the fact that my father, Officer Thomas Daley Sr., was a complex man who saw the world in black and white. I'm a simple man who sees the world in shades of gray. There was plenty of room for both of us. Time has made me more forgiving of his real and perceived shortcomings. For

The perception is always more important than the truth.

For better or worse, civil litigation is generally driven by economics. If somebody thinks they've been wronged, they go to court and ask for money.

look around the table: my ex-wife, my ex-girlfriend and me. We aren't a law firm— we're a support group. Somebody will probably name a 12-step program after us.

You didn't do anything illegal, and you shouldn't be penalized just because the technology outpaced the theology.

with Wendy Hogan, a part-time tax attorney at S&G, and her six-year-old

Alcatraz Liquors is a small store where Sixth is intersected by

sitting on crates and passing a bottle. A cameraman from Channel 7 is shooting footage, and a reporter looks uncomfortable as she adjusts her makeup and studies her notes

I keep that photo to remind me to be forgiving and to look into people's souls with an open mind. It isn't the initial judgment that matters, Mike. It's the last one that counts.

I don't want to do anything that might be perceived as overstepping our bounds. Pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.