A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.
I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.
I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.
Being the DA was, without a doubt, the best job in the world. I loved knowing that people would get their justice.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
I'm a lawyer, I practiced for many years, and so I believe in the Fifth Amendment.
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.
I loved practising law when I practised law.
When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.
I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].
I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.
I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
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.
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
I am a lawyer by profession.
