Always Quote by Anthony Lewis

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned…

— John Marshall

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a…

— Constance Baker Motley

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

— Jeremy Rifkin

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

— Geraldine Ferraro

“Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and…

— Marian Deegan

“Studying the rule of law won't make a great litigator. It is the act of trying cases in real courtrooms with real plaintiffs and…

— Marian Deegan

I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important…

— Ted Olson

“Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should be illegal.”

— Sylvia Day

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was part of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes.…

— John Paul Stevens

We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges.

— Anonymous

“A courtroom is a war zone where enemies confront each other in a bloodless battle using only the weapons of information, principles, and logic…

— David Bagby

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

— Ambrose Bierce