Blur Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

“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

“Law is neither a divine revelation nor a scientific discovery. It is a wholly human creation that includes the contribution of those who claim…

— Alain Supiot

“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

The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering…

— Holman W. Jenkins, Jr

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

— Oscar Wilde

The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested…

— Diane S. Sykes

“as I begIn my journey away from the law life, you should know, or already have figured out, that I think the law looms…

— Mark Shaiken

Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamental difference between duties imposed by…

— Frederick Pollock

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort…

— Barack Obama

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork

Good lawyering is usually cerebral and impersonally. You can convince a judge with a mastery of facts, detail, and precedent - not a story…

— Ari Melber