Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
People are getting smarter nowadays they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
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.
Laws are the spider's webs which if anything small falls into them they ensnare it but large things break through and escape.
All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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.
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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.
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...