Courtroom Advocacy Quotes

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

I am primarily a lawyer. I would rather play in the game than be the umpire.

Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Long-term I would love to go to law school.

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years.

You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I'm a duty solicitor, so I can't fix someone's life; all I can do is fix the problem I've got in front of my eyes.

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 went to law school after college.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

I will be the defense attorney for all Italians.

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.