Jonathan Lash Quotes

When you're thrust into litigation, you obviously have to make sure you're prepared to deal with that.

We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

It only takes one zealot to file a case.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Any street cop knows you will be sued or involved in some type of litigation throughout your career.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.

If you are not serious, people will sense it.

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.

That title, is one of the things I fought for. A lot of people said 'But it's stupid, and it's the title of a comedy movie, and people won't take it seriously,' and I'm sure there are some people who still don't. But for the most part, people do see that we really have a quality show.

Keep out of Chancery [English court] .... It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Like confidence, legitimacy can vanish in a hurry and once lost, is very difficult to regain.

The era of big government may be over, but the era of regulation through litigation has just begun.

Advocacy is in the courtroom—not out in the streets.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Conflicts that in Sweden and Japan would be solved by quiet consultations … through the bureaucracy are fought out through formal litigation in the American court system.

It is impossible to be taken seriously in shorts. No one has ever cared about anything said by a man in shorts.

The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.

It's such a dangerous thing for desperation to drive litigation.

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.

Trump is not the victim of the judicial system; he is or has been the defendant in 3,500 lawsuits - that's not the mark of a victim but rather a perpetrator.

Sometimes it's hard to get people to take me seriously as an actor when they just see me as this WWE muscle head.

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.