Lawyer Life Quotes

Being a lawyer, even in a city as large as Chicago, is like being a citizen of a small town. I love watching the life of the town play out. You know, the rise and fall of individual lives in the entire community is just fascinating to me.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.

The problem with the law is that it's always there. There wasn't a vacation I took over the nine years I practiced - this was back in the dark ages - when I wasn't having faxes and FedExs literally sent to me on the beach in the Caribbean. I used to go on cruises not because I liked cruises, but because it was the one spot they couldn't get you.

I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.