Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

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

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

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

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!

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.

Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.

The right to be heard would be, in many cases, of little avail if it did not comprehend the right to be heard by counsel. Even the intelligent and educated layman has small and sometimes no skill in the science of law.

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

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

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?

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

Lawyers are very important people to me.

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.

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.