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Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

Prosperity: that condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted, or both.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it.

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

Sitting in the darkness of the cinema, I got to see another world. This imaginary world was a refuge for many of us. Of course, the films were controlled and censored by the regime. But I still thought, around this time, that maybe making films would be good for me. I thought of expressing myself through this medium, and of doing something for the Kurds. The options were clear: either I'd work as a lawyer under the Baath regime or make movies independently.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

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

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I don't need to deal with lawyers. I don't need to deal with corporations. I don't need to deal with executives or agents or any of that. I can just sit at home and make a feature film. That's a wonderful experience. Each film I make gets more popular, more press and makes more money. So it's amazing that I've survived and actually prospered doing that sort of homegrown, cottage-industry filmmaking.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 trouble with law is lawyers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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