Quotes About Law

John Grisham

A major flaw in this defective system is that no LSAT score is too low to be admitted. These dipshit law schools will take anybody who can borrow the federal money, and, as stated, anybody can borrow the federal money.

You weren't required to divulge all of your witnesses and describe what they were going to say, no sir. It was trial by ambush.

The element of danger was always in the background, though rarely discussed. With Keith in law school, Beverly and Laura at Southern Miss, and Tim headed

She fell for the scam that easy federal money could make law school possible for everyone, and took the first bold steps that would lead to Foggy Bottom.

Jerry Alisandros, on behalf of Zell & Potter, filed a motion to withdraw as counsel in the Klopeck case.

It was simply unheard of for a member of the firm to ignore his billing.

Los juicios no siempre tienen que ver con agravios e injusticias; a veces se utilizan como púlpitos.

For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce

It's just as well that we don't believe in fair trials because we damned sure don't have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let's get him off the streets.

algo, los demandantes, sus abogados y todo el pueblo de Bowmore se harán ilusiones y ¿qué ocurriría luego si las negociaciones no llegaran a ninguna parte?

And, you are no doubt familiar with the 1983 Supreme Court decision, the name escapes me right now, in which the Court ruled that before a person can be thrown in jail for not paying a fine it must be proven that he or she was willfully not paying. In other words, he could pay but he refused. All this and more, right?

I don't trust judges. Perhaps it's the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions.

Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.

There's no mandatory retirement age for drug dealers.

Our system never holds a bad prosecutor accountable.

He didn't worry much about the illegal killings of humans, such as those killings so artfully and cruelly achieved by his clients.

James Lee Burke or Michael Connelly.

Mass tort litigation was not practicing law. It was a roguish form of entrepreneurship.

I'm thinking about public interest law." "What the hell is that?" "It's when you work for the good of society without making a lot of money.

Ten minutes ago, a bomb went off in the Old Courthouse, same courtroom Link got convicted in." I've been in that courtroom a hundred times, so, yes, I am shocked to hear it's been bombed. On the other hand, I'm not at all surprised to discover

an administrative law judge (ALJ) in the federal courthouse in Charleston.

If you're not nervous in a courtroom, then you're in the wrong place.

You're willing to just sit by and push papers around your desk while this guy literally gets away with murder and keeps on killing.