Legal Fees Quotes

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.

There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

I fire lawyers frequently.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Lawyers are making more money than the cleanup folks are.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

One lawyer will make work for another.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

Unfortunately, no matter how frivolous the lawsuit, you still, of course, have to pay people to defend you on it.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

Lawyers, and others concerned in Court Business, will probably many of them be against a plentiful Currency; because People in that Case will have less Occasion to run in Debt, and consequently less Occasion to go to Law and Sue one another for their Debts. Tho' I know some even among these Gentlemen, that regard the Publick Good before their own apparent private Interest.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

If when I am libelled I take no notice, the world believes the libel. If I sue, I have to pay about one hundred pounds' costs for the privilege, and gain the smallest coin the country knows for recompense.