Quotes About Litigation

I'm a trial attorney and I specialize in defense civil litigation. My firm represents businesses and organizations in whatever aspect they get sued, whether it's commercial litigation, to personal injury, liability, contracts, we litigate for them on their behalf.

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

Poets are mostly voters and taxpayers, but the alienation of the poet is a common theme. Among poets there are also probably higher than average rates of clutch burnout, job turnover, rooting about, sleep apnea, noncompliance, nervous leg syndrome, depression, litigation, black clothing, and so forth, but this is where we live, or as Leonard Cohen put it, poetry is the opiate of the poets.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

We filed suit against YouTube before the Google purchase. At the time I went after YouTube, I thought it was a small company ripping off our copyrights.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

Activists create nonprofits for the sole purpose of suing their enemies, collecting a settlement check, and paying lawyers to find the next frivolous lawsuit.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

Aber vor Gericht gehen, das kann ich nicht, sage ich. Man müßte da jeden Tag vor Gericht gehen und wegen allem und jedem vor Gericht gehen und schließlich die ganzen Kräfte, die man hat, mit Gerichtsbarkeiten verschwenden, ein Mensch könne sich leicht sein ganzes Leben lang nur in Prozessen erschöpfen, die zu führen er immer Anlaß habe. Im Grunde müßte jeder mit jedem andauernd Prozesse führen, sage ich.

Nothing like perpetual litigation to age a man before his time.

Lawyers get you out'n the kind of trouble you'd never get in if there was no lawyers.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Superfluous focus on accounting and other procedural details is preventing U.S. industry from competing with rough-and-ready rivals in Asia that can build thousands of factories and skyscrapers while the United States dithers with environmental-impact litigation, re-computation, and backup of accounting reports.

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

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Nobody wants to get rid of the libel laws, but we want them to be fairer. If we drove down the costs you might end up with more people suing. The only people who can afford it now are the rich and the giant corporations.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.