Best Lawyer Wisdom
1050 Lawyer quotes by 778 unique authors
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Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.
— Mark Knopfler
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I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
— Johnnie Cochran
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I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's…
— Christopher Darden
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I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method…
— Gerry Spence
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A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
— Melvin Belli
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Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
— Russell Banks
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Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.
— Shirin Ebadi
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Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
— Shirin Ebadi
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In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the…
— Shirin Ebadi
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
— Elihu Root
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.
— Hillary Clinton
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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience…
— Jon Bon Jovi
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Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at…
— John B. Watson
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Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.
— Charles Stross
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If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to…
— Lawrence Lessig
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I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And…
— David Dinkins
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If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.
— Walter E. Williams
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The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of…
— George Will
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
— Unknown Author
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
— J P Donleavy
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A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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A lawyer’s either a social engineer or … a parasite on society … A social engineer [is] a highly skilled, perceptive, sensitive lawyer who [understands]…
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea
— Constance Baker Motley
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Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.
— Tony Greig
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