Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content. — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The Lawyers' trade is a trade built entirely on words. And so long as the lawyers carefully keep to themselves the key to what… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
While law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Laws are no stronger than the devotion to them by the people who live under them — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
