Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
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.
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
A nonhuman animal had better have a good lawyer. In 1508, Bartholomé Chassenée earned fame and fortune for his eloquent representation of the rats of his French province. These rats had been charged w...
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.
NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA leg...
And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Every new time will give its law.
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
The law is so complex and voluminousthat no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand itall. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their wayto make the law access...
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.