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Quotes About Litigation

Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.
~ Dan Pena
I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.
~ David Boies
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough
~ Abraham Lincoln
As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.
~ Peter Sunde
Lawsuits take a long time.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.
~ Sienna Miller
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
~ Jack Kingston
There were lawyers who promoted quarrels to get fees. But they were the pariahs of the profession. The best lawyers were peacemakers, and though, of necessity, professional partisans when engaged in litigation, they were generally honorable partisans.
~ Lyman Abbott
Scientifically illiterate case law like this obviates the need for rigorous research in forensics. Few traditional forensic techniques have useful applications outside of the justice system and, as a result, once courts allow a technique to be used, there is no real incentive to conduct research—or even test the abilities of putative experts. Why conduct research on a technique that has already been accepted in court, the only place it matters?
~ Unknown
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
~ John Grisham
litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.
~ John Grisham
It's just depositions," Jake had said. "You'll be bored out of your mind. Death by deposition.
~ John Grisham
38 million, the judge awarded $10 million—
~ John Grisham
Your client is losing about twenty million a day in revenue because Krayoxx is no longer on the market
~ John Grisham
They were lawyers, trained to argue five sides of every issue.
~ John Grisham
Jerry Alisandros, on behalf of Zell & Potter, filed a motion to withdraw as counsel in the Klopeck case.
~ John Grisham
For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce
~ John Grisham
Oh yeah. A lot of fun. Staring across the table at five lawyers, all scheming to pounce on every word, every syllable, salivating as they dream of getting more of your money. Why can't your lawyer get the case settled? It should've been over months ago.
~ John Grisham
Mass tort litigation was not practicing law. It was a roguish form of entrepreneurship.
~ John Grisham
his goal was $500,000. For the individuals—$5,000 maximum gift—Rinehart had a list of a thousand corporate executives and senior managers of companies in industries that attracted litigation from trial lawyers. Chief among these were insurance companies, and he would collect a million dollars from his contacts there. Carl Trudeau had given him the names of two hundred executives of companies controlled by the Trudeau
~ John Grisham
If you're not nervous in a courtroom, then you're in the wrong place.
~ John Grisham
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
~ David Baker
sued, but the
~ John Sandford
wanna lawyer.
~ John Sandford