#law school

Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships. ↗

— Stephanie Herseth

#before #career #college #college level #decided

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#going #i #law #law school #school

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#also #any #army #brother #encouraged

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley. ↗

— Douglass North

#because #berkeley #did #feeling #go

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise. ↗

— Jerry O'Connell

#about #been #belt #courtroom #faster

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#law school #michigan #neither #nor #quota

The great break of my literary career was going to law school. ↗

— Scott Turow

#career #going #great #law #law school

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. ↗

— David Dinkins

#fact #finished #had #i #law

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now. ↗

— Anita Hill

#able #again #am #being #i