Gertrude Stein Quotes

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.

If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

The option of solicitor advocacy came on the scene a bit too late for me.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

We want to make sure that anyone facing eviction has access to high-quality legal representation.

Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based on their type, not their merit; a high financial threshold for the receipt of legal aid in other cases; and a failure to deliver a safety net for vulnerable individuals by the exceptional funding arrangements.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

Has he come armed, then?” she asked anxiously. “Has he brought a pistol or a sword?” Ian shook his head, his dark hair lifting wildly in the wind. “Oh, no, Mam!” he said. “It’s worse. He’s brought a lawyer!

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.