The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.
I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
I'll trust an attorney before I'll trust a doctor.
He who has the judge for his father goes into court with an easy mind.
There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.
The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.
The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.
As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.
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.
Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'
I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.
Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything!
I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same.
But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.
