Quotes About Lawyers

What most people don't understand about lawyers is that they're all scared shitless to actually fight with one another.

My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.

Operating at a loss is one way NASA keeps its grip on space, the SFF lawyers accused. And taxpayers pick up the tab. "This

"A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."

Even lawyers have hearts, and mine ached a little as I took leave of her.

Law is injustice codified; it protects the idle rich against the exploited poor,26 and adds a new evil—lawyers.27

90% of all lawyers are incompetent in their chosen field of expertise.

In a proper utopia, they would not let any lawyers in.

I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.

For another 300 years lawyers would continue to do a great deal of their writing and thinking in French, and they would supplement it with generous helpings of Latin – words like affidavit and subpoena – which conveyed an air of precision and authority unavailable to English. To this day the language of the law proves prolix, repetitious, archaic and theatrical, as indeed do many of its quite mystifying processes and practitioners.

The humourless men seated round the table before me were part of the great industry of personal injury compensation, with its army of suave and accomplished lawyers and assured expert witnesses, rooting in a great trough of insurance premiums.

You know her parents are lawyers? Entertainment lawyers. Fantastically rich, huge house in Brentwood, working all the time, no discernible emotional life whatsoever.

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there's a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there's a group of doctors, they have their own slang, and so on.

Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

Of course, lawyers are always making money either way—up, down, and especially around.

Although Outlander authors kill, maim, disfigure and eviscerate bookpeople on a regular basis, no author has ever been held to account, although lawyers are working on a test case to deal with serial offenders. The mechanism for transfictional jurisdiction has yet to be finalized, but when it is, some authors may have cause to regret their worst excesses.

law lives in conduct, not on the printed page; it exists in the interactions of judges, lawyers, and ordinary citizens.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

I know O.J. better than anyone on the legal team. There are so many things I know about his personality. My job is really strategy and liaison between the lawyers and O.J.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.