Clarence Darrow Quotes

I was a defense attorney before I was a prosecutor, and so knowing what the defense is going to try to do is something that you have to do constantly when you're in trial. I always went to trial knowing what they were doing. So I was always in both mindsets anyway. 'Oh, they're going to do this, then I'm going to do that.'

Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.

A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.

I know O.J. better than anyone on the legal team. There are so many things I know about his personality. My job is really strategy and liaison between the lawyers and O.J.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.

I really do think that if we had lost that case we would really live in a country that would be really quite different.

Earlier today, the jury at the Martha Stewart trial reached a verdict. Martha was found guilty on all charges. In a related story, there's a huge sale at K-Mart.

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

What I endeavor to do is shine a light on what happens at the court, both as a law clerk and then as a litigator litigating and winning major cases in front of the Supreme Court over and over and over again.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.

People lie all the time in their divorce proceedings, especially when custody is an issue.

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

Where there is a will there's a law suit.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

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

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night.