Dave Sim Quotes

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

I see how attorneys are, and nobody is really on your side. It's about money. The attorney is not chasing after your money; he's chasing after his fee.

Without alcohol I'd be richer by two million dollars that went to pay lawyer's fees.

Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through.

You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.

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

The houses of lawyers are roofed with the skins of litigants.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

I was fined £20,000 for TV interview where I barely said anything. The FA brought an outside barrister in to do me. A big place like the FA, they don't have their own in-house lawyer?

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.

After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them.

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

FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.