Quotes About Lawyers

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

Richard didn't want to put on any defense at all. He had continually told his lawyers the trial was a circus and a farce. He refused to take it seriously or give it the dignity of putting on a defense. Clark strongly urged him to plead insanity and try to show the court through expert medical witnesses that he was crazy, but Richard told him he would never plead insanity. He had his pride, his dignity.

with lawyers I always assume that they came by their wealth and position through avarice and by means nefarious:

It seems to me that lawyers can justify almost anything to themselves as long as it's legal. But you can make anything legal when you put a gun to parliament's head.

Important names in the twentieth century included constitutional lawyers and academics such as Sir Ivor Jennings, Sir Kenneth Wheare, Geoffrey Marshall, O. Hood Phillips, and E. C. S.6 Wade and in the twenty-first century include Vernon Bogdanor, Rodney Brazier, and Peter Hennessy.7

We all know that teachers are doctors and dentists (for all those lost teeth), coaches and travel agents (for all those field trips), directors and handwriting analysts (for all the papers without names), and counselors and lawyers ("I'll cross-examine you in a second to find out what happened at recess").

All good trial lawyers develop an ability to keep their emotions hidden when the unexpected happens...

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.

For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

I've paid an awful lot of lawyers to protect what I've built. I can only hope the money was well spent.

It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.

In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.

In Missoula, Grizzly football exists in a realm apart, where there is a pervasive sense of entitlement. University of Montana fans, coaches, players, and their lawyers expect, and often receive, special dispensation.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities, to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of decreeing accordingly.

In answer to which, I assured his honor that in all points out of their [lawyers'] own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning; and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind, in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession.

Lawyers are the new three-button, white-collar, cuff-shooting cowboys. They fulfill all the cowboy criteria. Workingmen with arcane skills. They can be both good and bad, sheriffs and gunslingers.

One of the rookie mistakes first-time entrepreneurs often make is to be too guarded about their idea - in fact, many will actually spend their first $25,000 on patent lawyers without ever fully vetting their product.

If there's one thing that lawyers know about reading documents, it's to pay attention to the footnotes. In fact, oftentimes the most important information is buried there.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Fond of doctors, little health, Fond of lawyers, little wealth

A peasant between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.