Wilbur Smith Quotes

Nobody likes going to court.

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

One lawyer will make work for another.

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.

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

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.

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

The trouble with law is lawyers.

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.

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.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

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.

Scientific issues are litigated far more often than constitutional ones.

[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

I think the legal profession is getting somewhat corrupted. When it comes to lawyers, I think it's kind of a Catch-22. On one hand, there's so much process, procedure and mess caused by the legal profession. But on the other hand, the only way to sort through all that process, procedure and mess is through the legal profession.

This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

The notion that most people want black-robed judges, well-dressed lawyers and fine-paneled courtrooms as the setting to resolve their disputes is not correct. People with problems, like people with pains, want relief, and they want it as quickly and inexpensively as possible.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.