Court Quote by Ken Cuccinelli

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

— Augustus William Hare

When we're not a party, we sometimes file as amicus, as friend of the court, 25, 30 times a term, sometimes more. And in…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

Only lawyers would refer to something as a brief that takes hours/days/weeks to write and is 30 pages long.

— Anonymous

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

— Franz Kafka

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

— Mario Cuomo

They're like that at my firm. They're afraid you're going to cry over a legal brief.

— Miranda Hobbes

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

— Emily Yoffe

People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument. The judge…

— William Lashner

I always ask my law clerks, in addition to reading all the briefs, including all the amici briefs, that if there's a good law…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

The part that the public sees is the arguments up at the podium and the briefs that we file. But a significant part of…

— Donald Verrilli Jr

One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of…

— Ken Cuccinelli