Legal Strategies Quotes

Advocacy is in the courtroom—not out in the streets.

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.

I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

The criminal defense attorney is misunderstood if not despised by most of society. It doesn't matter if we believe in our adversarial system and the ideal that everyone charged with a crime is entitled to a vigorous defense. Ideals give away to reality - defense lawyers working loopholes and angles to get their clients off.

In 1984, one out of four campaign dollars was budgeted for accountants and lawyers to circumvent—or comply with—the law.

In the Stephen Sondheim song, when something bad happens in the circus, they send in the clowns. In America's political circus, they send in the lawyers.

Despite the apparent absoluteness of the First Amendment, there are any number of ways of getting around it, ways that are known to any student of law. In general, the strategy is to manipulate the distinction between speech and action which is at bottom a distinction between inconsequential and consequential behavior.

When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who - they would find any law; they would find a loophole and a way around it and often very tendentious and not true, and, you know, these are people who didn't respect the rule of law. But, you know, those people were there.

I think with 'Silk' there's something there for everyone: it's a legal drama, but it's human as well - you get to dip into the lives of the barristers and clerks.

Right" he said "Let's get one thing clear. I am not here to teach you law-I am here to teach you loopholes.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.

Never underestimate the creativity of the American legal profession.

Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

A lawyer’s place is in the fray.

The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

Every episode of 'Suits' is great and moves the story forward.

I've taken advantage of the laws. And frankly, so has everybody else in my position.