Quotes About Lawyers

It is natural for lawyers to think in terms of liability formulas. When we learn law we often do so as if learning spells at Hogwarts. So, we are taught that negligence involves a duty, breach, causation and damage. We learn that we can resist these claims by asserting counteracting magic spells which themselves have their own formulas.

Mary wondered when law got so complicated that even the lawyers needed lawyers.

her law firm needed the dough. The slump in the economy had hit lawyers, too, and people had stopped suing each other. Could world peace be far behind?

Lawyers can't lie, officially. Only Congress.

On Fridays there were fish fries or boils at which they served "lawyers" (burbot or eelpout), so-called because their hearts were in their butts.

A rebuke to Cong. "How could it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing & talk by the hour.

The apparent facts, if you like. I'm not a philosopher. We lawyers don't deal in ultimate realities. Who knows what they are? We deal in appearances.

all over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches

lawyers always give you very bad dinners. You would think they felt some remorse;

Why,' said he, 'does not the emperor, who has devised so many clever and efficient modes of improving the art of war, organize a regiment of lawyers, judges and legal practitioners, sending them in the hottest fire the enemy could maintain, and using them to save better men?

lawyers always give you very bad dinners.

The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived, which has no badge peculiar to itself, which adapts itself with great flexibility to the exigencies of the time, and accommodates itself to all the movements of the social body; but this party extends over the whole community, and it penetrates into all classes of society; it acts upon the country imperceptibly, but it finally fashions it to suit its purposes.

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another—the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.

He wants a Bill of Rights for Britain drafted by a Committee of Lawyers. Have you ever tried drafting anything with a Committee of Lawyers?

The CUAG specializes in providing support to Chinese human rights lawyers.

The lawyers who really begin to address the problems of their clients address them without recourse to our courts, although that recourse is absolutely essential in providing leverage.

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Anyway, it's best not to think about them, as if you do it makes the discussions with the other lawyers, all their advice and all that they do manage to achieve, seem so unpleasant and useless, I had that experience myself, just wanted to throw everything away and lay at home in bed and hear nothing more about it. But that, of course, would be the stupidest thing you could do, and you wouldn't be left in peace in bed for very long either.

Les avocats sont bien loin de vouloir introduire dans le système judiciaire quelque amélioration que ce soit, alors que tout accusé, même le plus simple d'esprit – et c'est très caractéristique – commence toujours, dès son premier contact avec la justice, par méditer des projets de réforme, gaspillant ainsi un temps et des forces qu'il pourrait employer beaucoup plus utilement.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.