A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone.
One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility...
In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.
When the 30-year-old lawyer died he said to St. Peter "How can you do this to me? - a heart attack at my age? I'm only 30." Replied St. Peter: "When we looked at your total hours billed we figured yo...
The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.
It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.