In America an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
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 jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Law ... begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
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.
Show me the man and I'll show you the law.
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 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 is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.
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.
A lawyer's dream of heaven - every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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.
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.
Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it.
Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Temeraire:) Can one hire a translator to say things properly?Yes; they are called lawyers, Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself.