Richard Painter Quotes

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a barrister was probably much more fun than being one.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

A license to practice law is not a license to violate it.

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

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

I had been active in various bar associations ever since I was a law student, and I think that also helped because it made me more of a known quantity.

Law school! A man must read law in the court house.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.

When I was starting out as a barrister in the 1980s, Lord Denning was the most famous judge in the land, and the supposed role model for every lawyer. But not for me.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.

The legal profession is overrun with money-makers, who regard it only as a business by which money is made, with little or no thought of the quality of the means used. We greatly need many more lawyers who regard the profession as a ministry in the temple of Justice.

A lawyer who is not a social engineer, is a social parasite.

I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that was my dream.

I am a Yale Law School graduate.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.