A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
I loved practising law when I practised law.
I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases.
I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.
Thankfully, I am not a lawyer.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.
Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.
I will leave the U.S. Congress when the term for which I was elected expires in January 2011 and return to the practice of law with a sense of duty fulfilled.
[Describing lawyers:] ... men who get their living intirely from the quarrils, follys, disputes and distresses of the Many, and the intricacy of our Laws.
Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
I don't think much about politics as such because it has no room in our working processes. Eventually, our cases will have to stand up in court. And court will hear nothing about politics.
I worked in the Square Mile for three and half years at an international City law firm.
The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.
In Massachusetts, where properly qualified 'persons' were allowed to practice law, the Supreme Court decided that a woman was not a 'person,' and a special act of the legislature had to be passed before Miss Lelia Robinson could be admitted to the bar. But today women are lawyers.
It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.
It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.
Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.
I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
I have always been the kind of guy to adjust to anything. I never cared where I was going to sleep or what court I was going to practise on.
