Lawyer Reputation Quotes

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously.

With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Dershowitz may be a genius in some ways, but he's not necessarily the advocate you want on your side.

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.