- Nov 07, 2020
Lawyers Quotes
Lines on courts, careers, and justice.
This collection reflects on the legal profession from several angles, including an old observation that young lawyers show up at court more out of ambition than actual business. Another line credits lawyers, not the people themselves, with winning most disputes. See our Law quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only shows that Americans watch in big numbers are shows about lawyers, doctors, or cops... People don't tune in to watch scientists unless they are forensic scientists.
- Nov 07, 2020
Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.
- Opinions
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
- Attended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to amplify the data that you have, you need media, you need lawyers, you need the judiciary. Especially when governments try to shut down a particular website or when litigating on an issue.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020