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...

Who leads the world in consumption? America! Who has more lawyers per capita? America! Who has the highest incarceration rate? America! What is the greatest country on earth? America!

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn’t have any money for lawyers.

Mister Rob Anybody and sundry others?” said one of the figures in a dreadful voice.”There’s naebody here o’ that name!” shouted Rob Anybody. “We dinna know anythin’!””We have here a list of criminal and civil...

America’s problem, in a word, is politicians. In two words, it’s politicians and lobbyists. In three words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, and lawyers. And finally, in four words, it’s politicians, lobbyists, lawyers, and bankers.

We are learning that through striving for justice, tears and laughter, seem more dynamic and shared as each step is taken with communal courage together. Record a legacy, they truly lived, not once stepped back...

The ego is a palpable body part in an attorney, perhaps the most prominent body part.

He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

Isn’t the human body a miracle

I built my ex wife a Castle of Love, and she dug a moat and filled it with sharks and lawyers. Oh well, at least I got to keep the unicorn.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.

It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would...

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past’s future.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

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