Pleadings Quotes

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

When I wanted to be an attorney, I think I wanted to be a litigator; I wanted to be in a courtroom.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.

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