Jacqueline Nguyen Quotes

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

I went to law school after college.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

Law school! A man must read law in the court house.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.

The course I teach, Professional Responsibility, was brought into law-school curriculums and required by most states for admission to the bar beginning in the 1970s.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.