Legal Career Quotes

This is a true story. The day after Reagan won, I was walking into the courthouse when someone said that they'd bet Reagan would appoint me U.S. attorney.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

After law school, I had the opportunity to clerk for a tremendous judge, Leonard I. Garth, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the court to which I was appointed in 1990.

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

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

I am a lawyer by profession.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it's an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won't go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through 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 worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

You know, I started with the law firm of Taft Stettinius & Hollister in Cincinnati back in 1990.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.

My father was a lawyer.

I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.

I went to law school.

I was an assistant U.S. attorney. I was the associate attorney general of the United States, third-ranking official under Ronald Reagan.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.

I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

I've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied and lived in a hostel throughout in London and became a barrister.

My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a dent in the universe.