Quotes About Lawyers

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Be grateful for villainy, I thought. The jobs of millions depended on it, Gerard's included. Police, lawyers, tax inspectors, prison warders, court officials, security guards, locksmiths and people making burglar alarms. Where would they be the world over but for the multiple faces of Cain. "Gerard," I said.

There is no substitute for due diligence. To this day, my father reads every lease our firm enters into. Before any building acquisition, every single lease must be reviewed. Yes, there are lawyers involved and that is technically their job, but he believes—and I do, too—that there is nothing like knowing the full story of a property, right down to the basic maintenance contracts.

There must be some honest lawyers at the New York bar, and some impartial judges on the New York bench, but I should not like to be set to find them.

We lawyers learn to study the faces of our witnesses, to form quick judgments, and to act upon them.

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.

Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot 'em, that's what I says to the Governor, but they're all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin' everythin' up all the time with warrants and habeas corpus and longwinded rigmarole. My ass to habeas corpus.

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping at each other under the scornful eye of a judge, the referee, and somehow in the midst of this barrage of laws and code sections and motions and legal talk the kid was supposed to know what was happening to him. It was hopelessly unfair.

This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it. Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same—bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors.

Great trial lawyers aren't born; they're made. The great ones simply tell the jury a story...

Forget the taxpayers. I'm sure these lawyers here wouldn't mind passing the plate. Look, ask each side to put up a thousand dollars. We can charter a huge boat and have a wonderful time.

There were small ones where more private matters were handled without juries, then there was the main courtroom on the second floor where lawyers battled like gladiators and judges ruled like kings. At

lawyers, they valued their time. As investigators, they had learned patience. The two roles were often in conflict.

La mayoría de los buenos abogados pueden trabajar de ocho a nueve horas diarias y facturar doce. Lo llaman rellenar. No es demasiado honrado de cara al cliente, pero todo el mundo lo hace. Las grandes empresas han crecido gracias a las cuentas de relleno. Son las reglas del juego.

Empezarás trabajando mucho y a todas horas, pero no podrás hacerlo eternamente. De modo que comenzarás a descubrir atajos. Créeme, Mitch, cuando lleves un año con nosotros sabrás cómo trabajar diez horas y facturar el doble. Es una especie de sexto sentido que adquirimos los abogados. —

you start repeating what's already been said, as lawyers have a natural inclination to

All lawyers knew of him, and when Lacy had decided to sue over the staged car wreck that injured her and killed Hugo Hatch, her former colleague, she really had no choice.

It's just depositions," Jake had said. "You'll be bored out of your mind. Death by deposition.

costes derivados de abogados y demás también se añadirían a la cantidad pendiente.

It was written by Jerry Alisandros and sent to about eighty lawyers, one of whom was Wally Figg.

They were lawyers, trained to argue five sides of every issue.

The digital age was dragging older lawyers like the Boones into the world of paperless files and storage, and not a minute too soon... Why destroy so many trees to produce much paper that becomes useless almost as fast as it is filed away?

war. Mattie handed over a list and said, "Not including us, there are fourteen lawyers in Brady, all alphabetized with phone numbers.