George Sutherland Quotes

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

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.

I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

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!

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

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.

In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

If you're going to have someone defend you, it doesn't get any better than Kristen Stewart.

Without legal aid, and the dedicated lawyers who deliver it, our system of justice would quite simply collapse.

Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.

There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.