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I was a lawyer for 10 years, and when you're in law, things really have to get done, or somebody sues you. It's a great trick. -- Stephan Pastis
On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it. -- Johnnie Cochran
In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer. -- John Amery
In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator. -- Laura Wasser
I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment. -- Kevin Warsh
I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me. -- Demetri Martin
After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. -- Eliot Spitzer
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I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. -- Gerard Butler
As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work. -- P. Sathasivam
My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14. -- Max Weinberg
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club. -- David Dinkins
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game. -- Floyd Abrams
From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases. -- Robert Pozen
I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school. -- Tony La Russa
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids. -- Michele Bachmann
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates. -- Ben Stein
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school. -- John C. Reilly
I think that the question is very clear-cut, not only as a matter of ethics, but also as a matter of law, that a lawyer should not be aiding and abetting in a fraudulent scheme, and part of that aiding and abetting would be to draw up subsequent documents in order to conceal the true nature of the scheme from federal investigators. -- Viet D. Dinh
I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court. -- Viet D. Dinh
The trouble with law is lawyers. -- Clarence Darrow
Law..is too important to be left to the lawyers. -- Lawrence M. Friedman
lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better. -- Agatha Christie
There is no rule of law until the Mafia needs lawyers. -- Stephen Holmes
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. -- Jeremy Bentham
"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law. -- Jonathan Swift
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. -- Abraham Lincoln
Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives. -- Joan Rivers
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers. -- Christina Stead
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind. -- George Crabbe
The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law." -- Edward Snowden
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. -- David E. Kelley
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. -- Samuel Hopkins Adams
The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law. -- Voltaire
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems. -- Ben Carson
What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems. -- Ben Carson
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience to the law. -- Charley Reese
Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts. -- Craig Ferguson
If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress. -- Walter E. Williams
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says. -- Walter Wriston
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics. -- Irving Kaufman

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