Best 354 quotes in «lawyer quotes» category

You wanna go see my old bedroom?” “Is that a pickup line?” “Come on inside and you’ll find out.” How was a girl supposed to resist an offer like that?

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief.

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.

A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

All artists have runners, people that tell them what to do, business managers, lawyers, these - if they get the right ones, they're lucky, and if they get the wrong ones, they're unlucky.

And there's doctors and lawyers, And business executives, And they're all made out of ticky tacky And they all look just the same.

[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

A team of British lawyers has now concluded that the Declaration of Independence was illegal, and the American colonies had no right to secede from England. Well, you thought our court system was backed up.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

Deal with just the basic fact: we will never have enough money for lawyers for poor people. So one of our major initiatives has been to develop new technologies that can help people without a lawyer navigate the legal system, and help sort the cases that really need to have a lawyer from those where an individual with some help online, may be able to manage by him or herself.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Donald Trump always used to say, "Oh, what have you been doing for 30 years?" And I always found that kind of odd because you could Google it and find out. And, you know, I've been a lawyer and I've been a First Lady and I've been a senator and I've been secretary of state.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.