Evelle J. Younger Quotes

Let's ask ourselves: Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people with disputes come up against staggering expense and delay?.

... endless lawyering can prevent efficient justice

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

I learned that in seventy percent of all the civil cases in the judiciary of the United State at least one of the parties is not represented by an attorney. I didn’t know that.

The law will argue anything, with anybody who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

Do justice fairly, correctly and equitably to churches, widows, orphans, and all others, without fraud, corruption, obstruction or abusive delay.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth—one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.

A point concerning property, which ought, for the reasons I have just mentioned, to be most speedily decided, frequently exercises the wit of successions of lawyers, for many generations .… But the question concerning a man’s life, that great question in which no delay ought to be counted tedious, is commonly determined in twenty-four hours at the utmost. It is not to be wondered at that injustice and absurdity should be inseparable companions.

Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

For the common man the justice meted out in the lower courts is much more important than that meted out in the Supreme Court.

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

We have far more plea bargains in our system than we do trials.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

We think of the GAO as non-partisan, but non-partisan does not mean competent.

One thing I have learned about lawyers is that if you look hard enough you will always find some who will agree with you.

They are lawyers, who try to use words — foolishly sometimes — to extricate themselves from mistakes.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.