Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Lawsuits take a long time.

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

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.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

You always make somebody mad when you decide a lawsuit.

Nobody likes going to court.

I've always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.

Litigation solves everything.

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

there shall be in every court, three justices or commissioners, who shall sit with the twelve men of the neighborhood, with them to hear all causes, and to assist the said twelve men of the neighborhood in case of law; and that they the said justices shall pronounce such judgment as they shall receive from, and be directed by the said twelve men in whom only the judgment resides, and not otherwise.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

The dispute is still before the judge.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.

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.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

In India, nobody sues anybody.