Attorneys Quote by Michael Connelly

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

— Michael Connelly

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and…

— Michael Connelly

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and…

— Vincent Bugliosi

[I have ] two boys. One, Nicholas, is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix in which he - gets into - a lot of…

— Nat Hentoff

“Ask any experienced prosecutors or criminal defense attorneys, and they will all tell you the same thing: after a police officer arrests you, if…

— James Duane

Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle cases and…

— Marcia Clark

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work.

— Lynne Stewart

Lawyers claim that their clients have been grossly mistreated, which is what criminal defense lawyers are paid to do.

— Anonymous

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a…

— Clarence Darrow

I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those…

— Andrew Vachss

I have to say that every white-collar criminal defense lawyer knows when the chief financial officer turns state's evidence, everyone in the executive suite…

— Richard Painter

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a…

— Alan Dershowitz