If life was fair … one third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers … one third of police and prison officials … and one third of legislators … and one third more...

What the efficient market hypothesis doesn’t account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although...

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

However…,” Satan said.Bick sighed. “However, I didn’t count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and...

That’s the thing about us lawyers – if at all possible, we will consume each other.

He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked out regularly. He looked like someone who could’ve gone either way, the mob...

Ah, here it is. You know, there’s a reason why we pay you young guys $90,000 a year. It’s because we expect you to dig a little deeper.” As it turned out, the provision he...

The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law accessible to...

Emotions are reserved for juries and, in that case, a good lawyer can really lay them on when the time is right, better than the best Academy Award winning actor

It is a shame that the Legal Aid Commission and the Aboriginal Legal Service are so poorly funded ……. State and federal governments should be addressing this issueThe Daily Telegraph, Sydney, 30 March 2014

Politicians were mostly people who’d had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

It’s finger time!” Steve simply grunted.Li responded like she always had to the request over the past years, by walking over to the tall oak cabinet in his office and pulling out a pack of...

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.

If you don’t start playing by my rules, you’ll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.

hallway evaluations” to other lawyers in the firm. I often heard about or participated in these hallway evaluations, and know that even one negative impression can have a devastating impact. In general, young attorneys who...

Indeed, the Judges in the courts of law are more likely to be exposed to conflicts and disputes where the utility of law is at its highest realm where interpretation takes the fore wheel. It...

Nothing is easy,” and, with respect to legal work, that was absolutely true.

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack...

Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular...

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

Lawyers don’t run sales forces.

inside scoop” on firm politics was crucial to my own political survival. Once I figured this out, I made sure I not only exchanged information with other junior associates, but I also went out of...

As an animal lover, I don’t like zoos. I feel the only creatures that should be caged behind bars are politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And rapists, but I’ve already listed that three times.

Trials for lawyers are like bills. It seems that you finish paying one, and feel that feeling of relief, then it’s time to pay it again.

nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

The dangerous men were still asleep, their blades sheathed next to their beds. The really dangerous men had been up for hours, and their quills and ledgers were getting hard use.

I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways...

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

pigeon-holed” in a particular practice area after just a few years in practice.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

The Business of Our Firm is Business”-Donald W. Hudspeth from:”The Business of America is Business”-Calvin Coolidge

Kennedy hisses.”And you have the chest of one.

Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.

A prisoner’s shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

Díjele que entre nosotros existía una sociedad de hombres educados desde su juventud en el arte de probar con palabras multiplicadas al efecto que lo blanco es negro y lo negro es blanco, según para...

Girls don’t go to law school,” I told him.”No, but women do.

God is the message owner; prophets and pastors are messengers. It’s happens on no account when the messenger becomes greater than the message owner! Let’s us avoid these “human worships”, confining our source of hope...

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists….

In third grade I thought I loved her – by sixth grade, I was sure of it

Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You’ve basically made yourself...

Countless generations have set out convinced that they would succeed where other had failed – that’s where lawyers and reporters come from, you know. They’re the cynical corpses of idealistic young people who thought the...

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of...

Sometimes I put on a black scuba suit and go walking on the beach, to relax. If I could, I’d sleep in a scuba suit—on a waterbed. Not that I actually ever get in the...

Ordinary human laws are the means — however imperfect — by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.