Quotes About Litigation

In most public company deals shareholder litigation is completely common.

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

It would be a very good thing for all involved - the country, an independent judiciary, and the Left itself - if liberals take a page from David von Drehle and their own judges of the New Deal era, kick their addiction to constitutional litigation, and return to their New Deal roots of trying to win elections rather than lawsuits.

Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.

I have a pretty good record of winning in court.

In America, if you succeed, you get sued. If nobody is suing you in America, you haven't made it there.

By the late Stalin period, the right of complaint was so thoroughly a part of this political culture, in which civil law and litigation were frequently meaningless, that there were special mailboxes in the concentration camps of the Gulag labeled, To the Supreme Soviet, To the Council of Ministers, To the Minister of Internal Affairs, and To the Prosecutor General.

No court would have awarded her the amounts he paid.

From the individual doctor's perspective, it is far better to do whatever it takes to avoid litigation, even if it doesn't seem to be the right thing to do, than to risk entanglement in this crazy system.

A statute limits the time for appeal to 60 days after judgment has been entered: The purpose is to close off appeal, and terminate the litigation, after 60 days. (The purposivist might find it to be closing off appeal after a reasonable time, which is specified as 60 days in normal circumstances—but special cir-cumstances may provide an exception.)

That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.

Having lawyers involved never leads to good things.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

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.

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

Así podrá instruirse y estudiar leyes para sangrar de su último maravedí a los pleiteantes; como hacen vuestras mercedes los abogados, escribanos y otras gentes de mal vivir.

Anyone who goes to law puts himself in the hands of an unscrupulous ring of bandits and thugs who milk both parties as hard as they can until one of them has to pay. If one allows for the stupidity and prejudice of judges, conceit and idleness of barristers, and diffuseness of English law, neither side can have a more certain chance of winning a legal action than on a tossed coin, which is a much cheaper way of settling things.

I think if someone sues Google, it will be very, very interesting.

The Governor's Office is going to get out of the litigation business.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He's an overwhelming choice.

People are savvy enough to know that simply a threat of litigation is tantamount to a nice, hefty check.