Legal Services Quotes

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

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

The ablest lawyers are always associated with the biggest fees.

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

A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.

True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

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

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

I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

There are three people you need in life: an accountant, a fishmonger, and a bail bondsman.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

A man calls a lawyer's office. The phone is answered, Schwartz, Schwartz, Schwartz and Schwartz. The man says, Let me talk to Mr. Schwartz. I'm sorry, he's on vacation. Then let me talk to Mr. Schwartz. He's on a big case, not available for a week. Then let me talk to Mr. Schwartz. He's playing golf today. Okay, then, let me talk to Mr. Schwartz. Speaking.

Buy a friend; hire a lawyer.

Well, what I can say about Denmark... Every law firm in town has some business with Danske Bank.

It takes a lot of money to hire an attorney.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Virtually all big law firms have good to super-good lawyers. All big law firms don't have great litigators.

There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.