- We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth—one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. - View Quote Details on We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth—one for…
- About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists of telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should stop. - View Quote Details on About half the practice of a decent lawyer consists of…
- Dick: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
Cade: Nay, that I mean to do. - View Quote Details on Dick: The first thing we do, let’s kill all the…
- [Lawyers] can make the worse appear the better cause, as though they were fresh from Leontine schools, and have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent. - View Quote Details on [Lawyers] can make the worse appear the better cause, as…
- LAWYER: A professional advocate hired to bend the law on behalf of a paying client; for this reason considered the most suitable background for entry into politics. - View Quote Details on LAWYER: A professional advocate hired to bend the law on…
- A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper. - View Quote Details on A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo…
- What are lawyers really? To me a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We’re all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there’s a problem, the lawyer is the only person that has actually read the inside of the top of the box. - View Quote Details on What are lawyers really? To me a lawyer is basically…
- He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. - View Quote Details on He who is his own lawyer has a fool for…
- It may be that the jury would incline to regard a practising lawyer as a man of probity whose word was prima facie worthy of belief. But the belief of lawyers in their own probity is not universally shared, and there are those who believe them to be capable of almost any chicanery or sharp practice. - View Quote Details on It may be that the jury would incline to regard…
- Lawyers earn earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating. - View Quote Details on Lawyers earn earn their bread in the sweat of their…
- An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. - View Quote Details on An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or…
- When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty.
When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.
When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice. - View Quote Details on When there are too many policemen, there can be no…
- Let’s ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world’s lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay? - View Quote Details on Let’s ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of…
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - View Quote Details on A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who…
- Lawyers are like nuclear missiles: I have mine, you have yours, and when we use them we fuck everything up. - View Quote Details on Lawyers are like nuclear missiles: I have mine, you have…
- Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence? - View Quote Details on Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we…
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