Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case.… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook. — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
