George T. Conway III Quotes

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'

I'm an old trial lawyer.

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

I had 24 hours to prepare. If this were a criminal case 5 or 6 lawyers would have weeks to prepare.

My job is all about defending the people that I play.

I know O.J. better than anyone on the legal team. There are so many things I know about his personality. My job is really strategy and liaison between the lawyers and O.J.

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker.

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.