You can’t learn everything you need to know legally.
Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
I wouldn’t pretend to tell you we don’t pay our lawyers well.
As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don’t.
They don’t need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
One with the law is a majority.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.
Nothing is so unproductive as the law. It is expensive whether you win or lose.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there’s no libel any more, that everyone’s given up.
Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning. You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
Misery is the company of lawsuits.
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.
I’m not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
