#lawyer

In violation of the Habeas Corpus Act and the fundamental laws of our constitution these men have never been brought to trail or even allowed to see a lawyer. ↗

— John Amery

#allowed #been #brought #constitution #corpus

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#appreciation #attorney #both #deep #defense

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#language #lawyer #legal #maybe #more

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

#black #group #him #killed #lawyer

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#happens #i #jury #lawyer #like

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#each #every #every man #forefathers #heaven

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#firm #glasgow #guitarist #i #law

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#better way #ever #exercising #freely #imagination

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

— David Steinberg

#being #eighty #hours #hundred #lawyer

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

— Benjamin Franklin

#cats #countryman #fish #lawyers #like