#lawyer

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

— Clarence Darrow

#juries #lawyers #only #real #trial

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cambridge #city #cluster #hollywood #industries

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#going #graduated #i #lawyer #military

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#because #become #been #cast #comfortable

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#because #career #i #idea #just

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#civil #civil rights #clear #could #exercise

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#doctor #i #lawyer #leading #leading man

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#because #case #court #day #favorable

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#because #bloodstream #break #commit #commitment

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. ↗

— Patrick Murray

#between #dead #difference #lawyer #lying