Catherine Jinks Quotes

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who - they would find any law; they would find a loophole and a way around it and often very tendentious and not true, and, you know, these are people who didn't respect the rule of law. But, you know, those people were there.

I've taken advantage of the laws. And frankly, so has everybody else in my position.

Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.

Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

The law will never keep up with the machinations of the human mind.

The minute the law is devised, its evasion is contrived.

It is very important to know the law, but it is more important to know the judge

Juries are not qualified to judge questions of law, but they are very capable of judging questions of fact.

There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so.

They are lawyers, who try to use words — foolishly sometimes — to extricate themselves from mistakes.

Foreign agents are taking advantage of loopholes in our laws.

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.