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- Nov 07, 2020
Lawyer Quotes
On practicing law, and what makes a lawyer worth trusting.
These quotes take the profession seriously — a call for justice to be delivered quickly and affordably in every case, and an observation that courtroom and medical dramas fascinate audiences because they show ordinary people under real pressure. See Jokes for a lighter companion.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, I am shocked at the complete level of incompetence exhibited by lawyer after lawyer for Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul Haggis, who's now a big movie guy, cast me as a lawyer in 'Family Law.' When that series ended, I thought that I would be going on more auditions and booking more jobs, but everything just came to a screeching halt.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be in our industry to have a panic attack about your career when you're pregnant. Even if you're a lawyer, you can think, 'I'm scared to take time off because I don't want to get passed by.'
- Killer
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much of my work strikes me as pretty unified: as a lawyer, working in several areas, I have thought about how to promote freedom of speech broadly for everyone.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.
- Briefcase
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had fantasies of being a European lawyer, but I quickly realised I probably just had fantasies of wearing a raincoat and carrying a briefcase and driving a BMW. I thought that would be cool.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020