Chronological-snobbery Quote by CS Lewis

“The truth is, the best win-lost records are not built on great trial work. They are built on cherry-picking only the strongest cases for…

— William Landay

“A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.”

— Jodi Picoult

“A trial is nothing but a competition to tell the best story. Whoever sways the jury wins the trial.”

— Karin Slaughter

“Failure to consider alternatives fully is the most common cause of flawed or incomplete analysis.”

— Morgan D. Jones

“Spectacular cases are usually simpler, and less interesting, than they initially appear.”

— Theodora Goss

“I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection.”

— Sidney Paget

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”

— John Locke

“Deviations from standard results are not failures, but opportunities for new questions to be asked and ideas to be tested.”

— Roger Spitz

“Hard cases, it has been frequently observed, are apt to introduce bad law.”

— Lord Abinger

“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Such a young trial!”

— Franz Kafka

“.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?”

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko