#lawyer

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. ↗

— Melvin Belli

#courtroom #depends #facts #lawyer #outcome

You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make. ↗

— Joe Biden

#attorney general #best #biggest #court #decided

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. ↗

— Ruben Blades

#lawyer #make #me #place #sense

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#consume #each #lawyers #other #possible

The trouble with law is lawyers. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#law #lawyers #trouble

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

It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe. ↗

— John Blair

#apparently #been #calls #contact #first

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

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.' ↗

— Lena Dunham

#cool #could #court #going #him

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