Clarence Cleveland Dill Quotes

As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

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

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Ask any lawyer - if a prosecutor thinks he can win a case, he'll prosecute it.

The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a good case weren't dramatic at all. Lawyers that had a horrible case would sing and dance and do whatever it took to convince the jury or the judge that this guy was innocent. So that was a cool thing to see because that made me believe that what the script [of From The Hip] was doing was totally believable. Now, maybe not ordinary. But it could happen.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

Superman and Batman go to a small claims court together. I knew they'd cast [Gal Gadot], I had seen pictures of her, I remembered seeing her doing parts in movies and I went and re-watched stuff with hers and then met with her.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.

No publisher will ever pay you enough to successfully sue them.

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.