Quotes about Lawyers

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

There is an increasing sense that defense lawyers have become an arm of prosecutors. Their job will be to investigate and report to the government.

Robert Litt

This is the first time we have filed a lawsuit against American companies in an American court, where the lawyers for the plaintiff and the defendant will also be Americans. But VAVA is determined to pursue the case until justice is done.

Nguyen Trong Nhan

You can learn from them, you can see what is bothering people. ... The jokes are a screen on which people project their feelings about lawyers and the law.

Marc Galanter

Defendants have the right to have counsel appointed for them. They don't have the right to insist on which lawyer will be appointed for them. As long as the lawyers are professional and competent, the judge is not going to let the defendant dictate to the judge which lawyer will represent him.

Barry Feld

I would be very surprised if some of these companies that have stakes in these projects don't already have their lawyers working on lawsuits.

James Williams

It's definitely out there. There are incompetent and even dishonest immigration lawyers working all over.

Matt Bernstein

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

George Carlin

Know that you are making a difference, ... They are going to be future school board members, doctors, lawyers, pilots.

Suellen Reed

The first thing his lawyers will do now is to fight to get him out of detention and on bail.

Jose Miguel Vivanco

We've said all along the real winners here will be the lawyers. This will drag out for years.

Christina Dona

This is where we'll see what the lawyers really get paid to do.

Kent Schaffer

We're lucky in this part of Texas because the lawyers, for the most part, are like family.

Randy May

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

Franklin Pierce Adams

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

Gerald Shargel

Frey lied to us, lied to his lawyers, and lied to his fans.

William Bastone

All of those Civil War soldiers same to be the first legislators and lawyers, sheriffs,doctors and teachers...

Andy Masich

That's not something the lawyers and police have to worry about. That's something the council will have to handle.

Tom Morrison

He's been committed to elevating the level of defense practice. His leadership has resulted in lawyers doing a better job, knowing what to do and what not to do.

Michael Donahoe

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

Irving R. Kaufman

The point is to be OK with your stuttering - and meet adults who stutter who are doctors and lawyers and engineers.

Amy Johnson

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Jeremy Bentham

When lawyers for different government entities disagree, that's the appropriate measure to take. When the opinion is issued, we'll be happy to comply with it.

Deb Kottel

You have certainly set an example that our profession would be better off if all lawyers would emulate the service you have rendered.

Robert Ingram

We have hired employment lawyers to come up with model language for contracts. We are hopeful this will be emulated by others in the industry.

Karina Litvack

We have one staff person. We have one investigator. We have no capital case defense lawyers, no office, no telephones, no computers.

Laurie White

Lawyers can't just get off a plane and walk with their briefcases into the courtroom.

Peter Andersen

The university lawyers have a form they've made up.

William Bass

This move is to put the defense team on a proper legal foundation and when the family appoints lawyers it then knows who is whom.

Abdel Haq Alani

Credit counseling organizations now know what the bankruptcy lawyers and other experts said all along: Congress got it dead wrong when it passed the bankruptcy law.

Brad Botes

Most lawyers are very deferential to judges, whether they like it or not, because they have to practice in front of them, ... David was never afraid to tell me about something that I had done that he didn't agree with.

Frank Conley

The bigger the class [of individuals suing], the bigger the award, the bigger the cut that the lawyers get.

Gretchen Schaefer

You can?t go to work if you are in a lawyer?s office.

Jay Zagorsky

But, for better or for worse, most of the cases I have been involved in lately are divorce cases that have turned ugly and [the lawyers] feel there is critical information on the computers.

Gary Kessler

We have a group of very expensive lawyers working on this investigation, including through weekends. Given that, I don't know what more we can do.

John Biggs

You'll have to ask the lawyers.

Michael Scheuer

Both his family and his lawyers are overjoyed that he is being released immediately and will be at home soon.

David Spears

I harbor no animosity with anyone there. But I hold lawyers to a higher standard, and I think I've been fair to both sides.

Joseph Failla

We're letting the lawyers do the talking.

Mike Triplett

That is obviously the product of discussion with lawyers.

Anthony Grabiner

The defendants have great lawyers, and great lawyers have to be good storytellers.

David Berg

We are one big family. We have people from all backgrounds - teachers, lawyers and doctors.

James Ferguson

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb

I think with the lawyers that are being hired, things will take care of itself, ... There will be a search put on to find who Bob's replacement is and that's the way it should have been done in the first place.

Tie Domi

Do you actually have lawyers here?

Cyrus Kar

He was at the defense table, and he fell out in the floor between the defense table and the bench where lawyers sit.

Duncan Mcmillan

The [borough] lawyers back then were very smart.

Al Telsey

There are lawyers here on Cape Cod who only want to take your money.

William Joyce

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

James Huneker

When I first started, I said 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, the lawyers say, 'Yes, sir and no, sir.' Now, we're even older than most of the judges.

Randy May

The number could increase. So many lawyers are sympathizers.

Saor Siagiaan

Most of the time it's the big criminal lawyers that take care of those cases.

Joe Clark

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

G. B. Trudeau

He is going to try by all means to hire his own team of lawyers. He has already decided to retain some of the lawyers who came yesterday.

Arthur Saye

Everybody has had not their day in court, they've had their years in court, ... It's shameful that the victims of this state, in fact, have to not fear the courts, not the defense lawyers, not the defendants, but they have to fear their very own governor.

Kevin Lyons

The 15 defendants did not have independent lawyers, they had state-appointed lawyers, who [reportedly] acted like prosecutors.

Tolib Yakubov

Dees and the SPLC lawyers are the leading lawyers in the country in fighting hate crimes through damage litigation.

Arthur Bryant

Nobody knew about his whereabouts, including his lawyers, as no one had access to him.

Tolib Yakubov

Our lawyers are looking at it. We'll see if anything can be done.

Michael Schirp

Science and math are scary to a lot of lawyers.

Gary Clements

You remind me of lawyers who appear in my courtroom.

David Dowd

This is probably the most important phase of jury selection, and jury selection may be the most important phase of the trial, ... This will be the chance for lawyers to see whether these are jurors with an agenda.

Laurie Levenson

There are Bar exams and such for lawyers. There is no clear line like that for journalists.

Howard Friedman

This has been working so well for so long without lawyers.

Paul Davidson

I have no first hand experience with these lawyers, but according to Ray's papers, the RIAA has hired two sets of lawyers, one to be good cop and one to be bad.

Jason Schultz

But I will continue my battle for liberty in other ways, with he help of the lawyers who assist me.

Paolo Di Canio

Will empower consumers, not empower lawyers.

John Boehner

We told her lawyers it was not coerced. We are surprised to learn we had anything to do with her incarceration.

Joseph Tate

Don't just listen to the lawyers. You know in your heart it's time to get this behind you, avoid the nightmare of more proceedings up on the Hill.

David R. Gergen

The appropriate channel is for the accusations to come through the court and for the lawyers to receive a copy of the indictment.

Issam Ghazawi

The photo is to remind me that even lawyers need to give clients the benefit of the doubt.

Barbara Keshen

I would say Ken Lay has been grilled by his own lawyers to avoid opening the door.

Brian Wice

Let's face it, a lot of these bankruptcy lawyers are heartless. They'll tell people to go ahead and file because they'll get a fee out of it.

Joseph Meyer

The lawyer's first thought in the morning is how to handle the case of the ringing alarm clock.

Edward Packard, Jr.

It's me, a private citizen, against three lawyers. It will be a lot more difficult, but the Ethics Commission has a responsibility to hear all the evidence.

John Kane

People grumble about it, and they may complain to a lawyer they know, but they don't really know what the rules for lawyers are. But there have been a number of instances where the disciplinary counsel has had to negotiate with lawyers about their ads.

Elliot Hicks

We had four different lawyers look at this language, and we've come up with four different answers.

Edward Whitfield