Damon Dash Quotes

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

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

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.

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

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

Frankly, I am shocked at the complete level of incompetence exhibited by lawyer after lawyer for Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump.

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation!

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

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.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

I hate my own attorneys!

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

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.

For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, because that would mean waiving my right to attorney-client privilege, and that would hamper my ability to mount an effective case.

All my life I have been under investigation.... I will just have to hire 200 more lawyers to keep me out of jail.

… the comfortable fiction that all lawyers are skilled or even competent craftsmen in representing the fundamental rights of their clients.