Litigation Quotes

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

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

[The Utopians] have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

At some point the law must prevail and the lawyers must go home.

Once upon a time, America was a self-reliant John Wayne society where a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Now, America has become an over-lawyered society where nobody takes responsibility for mistakes because it is more profitable to claim victimhood and reach for a lawyer.

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

Nobody likes going to court.

When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures?

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

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

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

If you want to amplify the data that you have, you need media, you need lawyers, you need the judiciary. Especially when governments try to shut down a particular website or when litigating on an issue.

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 worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

The question is yet before the court.

I've argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. I've argued in almost every circuit. And I tried, as a personal lawyer and U.S. attorney, over 50 cases.

I am a lawyer by profession.

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

We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.

You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.

There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.