#lawyer

Sometimes a word, a sound, triggers an image or recollection of something forgotten. A search for the truth sounds romantic, a thoughtful quest. As often as not, it is as mind numbing as reading a list of names or looking through scores of obtuse documents in the hope of finding a clear pattern, divined by not much more than intuition and observation. A shrugged-off remark can lead to more truth than studied responses to severe cross-examination. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#jackson-burnett #lawyers #the-past-never-ends #the-search-for-truth #romantic

If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office. ↗

— Linda Pohl

#lawyers #love #power #romance #secret

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it? ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#actually #against #ago #become #did

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. ↗

— Bella Abzug

#because #before #began #coffee #establish

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club. ↗

— David Dinkins

#could #done #downtown #give #got

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. ↗

— William Dunbar

#does #handicapped #know #lawyer #men

Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so. ↗

— Barney Frank

#good #keeping #lawyers #out #prison

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different . ↗

— Gordon Gould

#communicated #different #entirely #had #history

This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses. ↗

— Bob Ney

#businesses #clog #colleagues #common-sense #courts

I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#admit #i #lawyer #making #making money