Legal Work Quotes

Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.

One lawyer will make work for another.

I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.

Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

I spent many hours slaving away, day and night, bleary eyed, on multi-million pound takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, and the rest. It could sound glamorous (especially when it involved overseas travel) but often it wasn't partly because, as a lawyer, you were not the one calling the shots.

I like practicing law.

Some law firms now use artificial intelligence software to scan and read mountains of legal documents, work that previously was performed by highly paid human lawyers.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

I very much miss trying cases - I knew that I made a difference in the world working with crimes directly and trying to get verdicts that spoke the truth. On TV, you never really know what effect you're having.

Much of my work strikes me as pretty unified: as a lawyer, working in several areas, I have thought about how to promote freedom of speech broadly for everyone.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

I get thousands of emails. Half my work is environment-related; the rest is pharmaceutical problems. There's so much of it. No one law firm can handle it now.

I don't plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

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

I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit.

Law is a very addictive profession.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

I've worked in government. I've worked in competitive New York litigation, I've worked as a writer and reporte..