Lawyer Quotes - Page 4

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now. I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.

Be friendly but not chummy with your lawyers.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

The law is hard but it is the law.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.