Quotes About Lawyer

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

DeBlass's eyes darted left and right. His breathing grew hard and fast. My client does not acknowledge ownership of the weapon in question. Your client's scum. The lawyer puffed up. Lieutenant Dallas, you're speaking of a United States Senator. That makes him elected scum.

Well, as we were saying when last we met— I don't have to say dick to you without my lawyer. Did I ask you to say dick? Peabody, replay the record and verify that I at no time requested that the subject say dick.

Divorced him—hired a fucking shark lawyer—excuse the language." "No problem. Cops hear words like lawyer all the time." Fanny

As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent.

Since I'm not a fashion model, there's a limit to how nice I can make myself. I don't regard myself as an ugly person, but I don't think of myself as someone who would choose to be a model. I'm somebody who might be, I'd like to think, a role model for people who want to become lawyers.

My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Prenuptial agreement: Paper a lawyer prepares to protect the party of the first part from the party of the second part should they discover the party's over.

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.

One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.

Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and simply think 'first woman president.' We think—for example—'first ex-co-president' or 'first wife of a disbarred lawyer and impeached former incumbent' or 'first person to use her daughter as photo-op protection during her husband's perjury rap.

One of these days," Ming mutters, "Jerry's going to take a trip to China. He'll get a whiff of the real breadth and depth of Chinese cooking, legendary dishes. That chicken wrapped in lotus leaves he's read about. Authentic peppers from Sichuan, fresh as hell. Then he'll leave the U.S. for good, retire to Asia, and Dad's going to have to cough up real money for a lawyer.

maybe that's redundant. Maybe that's the only kind of attorney there is.

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

Each of us, over the years, creates a character for ourselves. One we identify with, which corresponds to a positive idea of ourselves, which encapsulates the qualities we like to think we have. Your character, the one you've created for yourself, the one you identify with, has, among its various characteristics, one that could be described like this: He's a criminal lawyer, therefore he defends criminals, but not those who've committed heinous and disgusting crimes.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.