Quotes About Legal

Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon.

Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.

You follow the law. Every few months, you need to fly back to Europe and stamp your visa. After a few visas, I applied for a green card and got it in 2001. After the green card, I applied for citizenship. And it was a long process.

My parents and I entered the U.S. legally, but when it was time for our visa extension, we were turned down. Returning to China meant imprisonment for my father and persecution for my family. We were days from being forced to live here illegally when we were granted political asylum. Other families are not so lucky.

No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas.

A couple of years ago, clients would expect to have to make an appointment with a lawyer in order to be told what legal services could help them with their problem. Today, clients expect that information to be free, given over the phone instantly, or, better yet, available on demand on a website. Clients don't want to pay you to understand their problem and work out what they need, they just care about the outcome.

the first lesson: you need to stop thinking of your law firm as a practice and start thinking of it as a business that sells legal products.

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal. They're not mutually exclusive.

Ms. Cormier, who has the right to judge someone else? Well, she said. That depends on whether you're judging in a moral sense or a legal sense. Morally, no one has the right to judge anyone else. But legally, its not a right-it's a responsibility.

As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there's no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and the shitty pay.

Anna is thirteen. Anna lives with her mother. Anna's mother is opposing counsel. How can Anna possibly live in the same home and not be swayed by Sara Fitzgerald?

The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue, relentlessly and without exception, its own self-interest, regardless of the often harmful consequences it might cause to others.

En mis muchos años, he llegado a la conclusión que un hombre inútil es una lástima, dos son una firma legal, y tres o más son un congreso

The difference between a divorce and a legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Lawsuits take a long time.

I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.

Get a good lawyer because sometimes it's hard to understand what you might or might not be agreeing to.

I'm a lawyer. The right to life is important.

I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

The only people that should vote should be legal.