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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Robert Frost

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Woodrow Wilson

It was the basic story of having to leave it all behind, ... My grandfather was a lawyer and landowner who had it all, and when he came [to America] he was selling strawberries.

Al Montoya

We just need to let our horse run his race and not worry about what anybody else is doing. At some point, you have to believe Lawyer Ron is not going to run out of the bridle.

Danny Peitz

Everyone knows you can hire a lawyer to say anything. It really doesn't matter what a lawyer hired by the Chamber of Commerce thinks. It matters what the judges think.

Tom Hucker

Mr. Murdock was the chief lawyer, chief lobbyist -- he was the whole package on this deal.

John Cox

I know there are a zillion concerns, but as a lawyer that does this kind of law, I wish somebody would address the issue.

Frank White

We have, through his lawyer, Gotti's admission that he was the boss of the Gambino family, standing in his father's shoes.

Michael Mcgovern

The bright line says the lawyer doesn't become part of the criminal enterprise, whatever that enterprise may be.

Lynne Stewart

I'm not a lawyer. So I can't really answer that. But it would have to be owned by the state.

Rod Wolfe

Yes, but you're a lawyer.

Michael Dileonardo

We're trying to give them options. You don't have to be a doctor or a lawyer. We take what we know and put it together.

Jen Caffrey

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

Margaret Deland

I used to want to be a Lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

Max Walker

I never heard Archie's kind of talk in my own family. My father was a lawyer and was in partnership with two Jews, who with their families were close to us. There were black families in our circle of friends. My father disliked talk like Archie's -- he called it lowbrow.

Carroll O'connor

I've never been to jail before. I was married to a lawyer for 31 years. I'm a peaceful person.

Peggy Smith

My appeal is based on his competency, and waiving his right to his lawyer, and Miranda rights.

Thomas Shaffer

As a lawyer, David Pepper should follow the law. We feel it is a misleading commercial. He is not the incumbent.

Brad Greenberg

The subtext of the Democratic proposal is: If you have a problem, get a lawyer.

Karen Ignagni

If you're a lawyer and you're not motivated by money, that would probably seem like the most important job there is.

Paul Hodgson

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

Jean Kerr

It's cheaper for us to pay a lawyer and tie it up in court than it is to pay the tax bill.

Randy Perry

I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!

Catherine Zeta Jones

As the people's lawyer, I will put my experience to fight for a better state for every New Mexican.

Geno Zamora

I don't want to give a statement without anyone here ... my lawyer.

Kelly Ryan

Jim, you're my friend and I'm your lawyer. You know that I have never let you down. This is one time that I need you to trust me.

Spencer Siegel

As a victim, I should have rights, not have a judge keep me away from Gilbert. I'm going to start looking for an appeals lawyer.

Michelle Carrillo

We have roots here,Homer. We have friends and library cards … Bart's lawyer is here.

Marge Simpson

[That's something her lawyer says she's willing to do.] She wants them back, ... That's her life.

Carl Taylor

Laura FitzSimmons is splitting hairs. She's a lawyer who gave a large amount of money to the Titus campaign.

Greg Bortolin

He would have made an outstanding lawyer.

Anthony Sampson

I was functioning as a lawyer, not a priest. He did not elaborate. I did not ask.

Ron Kuby

We will go if they give us security or not. We will never abandon the president (Saddam) and we will not give the court the opportunity to appoint a lawyer to defend him.

Issam Ghazzawi

You shouldn't be the lawyer, you should be the promoter.

Jim Brown

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Robert Stevenson

Any lawyer who speculates on the outcome of a court case is a fool.

Dave Hunnicutt

There's absolutely no doubt that the lawyer from the Brown family and the lawyer from Mr. Simpson are working very closely together and colluding together to do everything they can to frustrate my client's ability to enforce this judgement.

Ron Goldman

The guy is a lawyer by trade who operates outside the law. It's an easy thing to identify with for me.

Sam Elliott

[Sevan's lawyer has insisted all along that the allegations against his client are] baseless ... never took a penny.

Benon Sevan

They don't tell her they have anything new. She went by herself. She didn't ask for a lawyer. She doesn't have anything to hide.

Cathy Cook

A senior lawyer reviewed the file and the circumstances of the offender.

Stan Lowe

Scott said (Horowitz) was a lawyer. Perhaps some criminal had a grudge and went up there.

Robin Croen

You'll be hearing from my lawyer as soon as he graduates from law school!

Groucho Marx

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

George Herbert

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

A. Whitney Brown

The thing I'm concerned about is equality. I want this to be about who's the best candidate, not who can hire the best lawyer.

Charles Farmer

I am still in a little bit of shock. I was beaten up for two days on the stand years ago (by an aggressive defense lawyer). The DNA did not fade away. DNA does not lie.

Kathleen Ham

My lawyer simply filed the document in an effort to get our lien involved in the existing Walbridge foreclosure process.

Chuck Madden

The simplest thing to say is that this person is not a lawyer and appears to have no legal training.

Jason Schultz

As a lawyer and a consultant, you don't talk about your client.

Webster Hubbell

For an ordinary, small-town lawyer, he accomplished incredible things. He reached heights one wouldn't expect of an African-American lawyer -- or any lawyer coming from his background. And these days, no one knows it.

Judith Kilpatrick

So far, we didn't ask for visas yet. We are going to work also with Juan Miguel's (Gonzalez's) lawyer in this matter.

Fernando Remirez

Take a five-minute course or read it on the Internet, whatever. You hit a grouse instead of the lawyer.

Jay Hakkinen

Almost immediately you worked to get rid of the lawyer that had sued you.

Frank Riley

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

Jeremy Bentham

My lawyer would kill me if he knew I was signing this!

Kristin Davis

I know our judges here will be practical and take into account that there's only so much a lawyer can do to make certain his client is being complete and truthful.

Paul Matthews

My day job is as a lawyer and I enjoy my job very much. But I think I've known for most of my life that in my heart, I'm a musician and music is what really drives me.

Geoff Pemble

How can you expect a general-practice lawyer like her to go head to head with a Stephen Breyer?

Laura Ingraham

Can you expect your lawyer to know those? I don't think they're in any law books.

David Stanley

The way the laws are set up, all the guys got to do is get a lawyer, pay a lawyer and get out. This guy allegedly just murdered somebody and he's out on the street.

Father Tom Bonnett

He should have access to a lawyer that he trusts. He's really a novice when it comes to procedure.

Charles Freeman

I can't afford a lawyer.

Charles Holmes

I asked my lawyer to look into the possibility of whether we should go to court, too. We'll see if justice is there for all or justice for (a) few.

Alfonso Gagliano

A doctor is a doctor, a lawyer is a lawyer and a cop is a cop. If I was a father, this would be over with, but I want to do it right.

Rick Sungaila

He becomes the most sought-after lawyer once it is discovered he is actually a rat.

Kelsey Grammer

If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.

Joe Martin

He was the best trial lawyer in the U.S. Attorney's Office when he was in that office.

Robert Grimes

I think Henry has done well in a lawyer job.

Dick Harpootlian

I could not attend, because under the law the witness is heard without a lawyer.

Niccolo Ghedini

Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce

He has had a long, successful career as a criminal defense lawyer. He has given his life for it.

Patrick Moore

He's an extremely good trial lawyer. He does his homework. He prepares extremely hard for cases. He's a very articulate and skillful defense attorney.

John Lachance

In the history of Grand Traverse County there is no lawyer or jurist with a more distinguished career than that of Justice Griffin.

Thomas Power

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, Hide not your case on no condition.

John Harington

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

Anne Parillaud

I'm not even a lawyer but it feels like I've had about two years of law school on immigration.

Chip Rogers

He was as well liked by his adversaries as he was by his colleagues. He was an extraordinary lawyer and important to the firm.

David Silver

The Lincoln Lawyer.

Michael Connelly

I wouldn't have advised him to say anything without a lawyer present.

Patrick Renn

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

She is lawyer enough to have changed all but one name (her husband's) in the part of the book devoted to criminal abandon.

Janet Maslin

Any trial lawyer will tell you that juries have a life of their own.

Richard Klein

I think there are a number of bishops -- and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category -- who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.

Frank Keating

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.

John Pierpont Morgan

John Roberts is a very careful and good lawyer, and I think the facts (of each case) will matter to him.

Alan Morrison

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.

David Steinberg

If you talk to a top economist, a top lawyer, a doctor who's at the top of [his] field, they all communicate with clarity.

Alan Siegel

[Don and Tom] seemed like an odd couple at first. Don was a patent lawyer and Tom was a complete nerd.

David Kaufman

I have the right to a lawyer?

Cyrus Kar

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

Frederick Wiseman

That's good. A lawyer would be good right now.

Pinky Mulligan

LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.

Ambrose Bierce

If that lawyer believes that this DA engaged in this conduct then she has a duty to report it.

John Gleason

A colleague asked me how many lawyer jokes there are. I told him just three ? the rest are documented case histories.

Marc Galanter

If I was a lawyer in one of those states that have a similar procedure, you can bet I'd be formulating an attack based on Mr. Hill's case.

Todd Doss

His role was as a lawyer for a president who had an agenda. And he was trying to assist that president or that attorney general in their agenda.

Dean Colson

Lou would prefer not to be a witness. That's what any lawyer would advise. You won't see him hanging around the courthouse.

Deborah Jeffrey

I've been to a lawyer, and a business advisor and a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), and I have a business plan ready.

Carol Anderson

A smart businessperson, a creative entrepreneur and a good lawyer might be able to argue for that sort of exception. I think some businesses are going to see what they can try to do.

Deborah Dowdell

It's rare that someone will call and say, 'I'll hire you as a lawyer' because they've seen the show.

Roger Katz

Being somebody who's been a tax lawyer for over 30 years, I find the AMT to be almost inscrutable.

Don Weigandt

She was the lawyer at the American Bar Association that was keeping the lawyers ethical. What better person do we want? She's got the practical experience.

Ronne Froman

If Lawyer Ron runs his race, then we're all probably running for second. He's been very impressive.

Dan Peitz

Probably one reason you do not have to be a lawyer is that when the Constitution was written, there was no uniform definition of what it meant to be a lawyer, ... And there certainly was no definition of what it meant to be a judge.

Allan Wolf

The cherished freedoms that we really need to defend, among them being the right to counsel, the right to having a lawyer that you consult with in absolute privacy -- that's been breached in this case.

Lynne Stewart

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

William Dunbar

Alan was a great football player, but he would never have been elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court if he also wasn't a great lawyer.

Bill Hillsman

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Shana Alexander

We don't have a lot of money for a lawyer.

Ruth Baisden

No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off the streets. My girls are gone forever; they can't be a teacher or a lawyer like two of them dreamed of.

Marina Daniels

She's been under tremendous pressure since she was detained 40 days ago. She hasn't been allowed to hire her own lawyer. Without a lawyer present, she may have said things against her will.

Xue Donghua

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewster

That was difficult, ... Anytime, whether you're a doctor or a lawyer, when they bring somebody else in to do your job, that's pretty frustrating. They obviously wanted to go a different direction, and I was demoted.

Ryan Nece

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.

Oliver North

Government has to have the flexibility to say, 'We're going to dismiss this person, not because we think he's disloyal but because we think he is [for example] a bad lawyer,'.

Eugene Volokh

I don't think in Illinois a foreign lawyer has been given that status before at the federal level.

Edward Greenspan

A good lawyer is a great liar.

Edward Ward

He was a mentor to me, both as a lawyer and a person.

Ed Bryant