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The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014.

The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers.

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

The outraged citizens of Indonesia - lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists - should be speaking up; they should be shouting. And of course, the voices of farmers and workers, their terrible stories, should be read and heard from the pages of independent magazines and blogs, from YouTube and independent films.

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft.

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.

There are three popular theories being bandied about to explain Robert Mueller investigation, but we have to remember that it was the Donald Trump administration that decided to do this. Mueller is hiring some of the biggest Democrat lawyer donors he can find. He's hired huge donors to Barack Obama, huge donors to Hillary Clinton. He has hired fundraising lawyers, I mean, people that are lawyers in their private sector lives who have bundled and raised money. There are some on his staff who aren't, but it's noteworthy for all of the partisan leftists that Mueller has hired.

The story I always recite - and have had to recite so many times over the years to different lawyers and different people within Universal - is that the business end of Mo'Wax was basically, like, 'Give us the big ones samples first, and we'll see how we get on.' And I gave them the six or seven that were, to me, the ones that were the scariest, and the biggest use. It wasn't about the big names, necessarily - although that played into it a bit, with people like Bjork and Metallica.

The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases. And if they do not know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs who handle criminal cases. It's very incestuous.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Unfortunately, Florida is a mecca for the shyster element, and there are apparently no rules on the kinds of advertising a lawyer can do.

Wallace Stevens had more time to write as an insurance agent. He was a bond lawyer and I know that insurance company lawyers don't have to do nearly as much as we had to do. We were out more in the production area. I'm not condemning Stevens for having had a better job than I did, but that's one of the many places where I differ from him.

Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

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

What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

A court case is usually a competition to prove the innocence of the innocent … or the guilty.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.