Joe Jamail Quotes

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

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.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

The civil process has become too expensive, time-consuming, and contentious, inhibiting effective access to the courts.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

I actually was a defense attorney first.

If you're in the business of law you're in the business of representation and precedent.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

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

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.