#lawyer

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#lawyers #more #own #positions #state

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#case #desire #distortions #every #factual

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#clients #craft #instruments #lawyers #pride

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#against #among #been #before #care

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction. ↗

— John Grisham

#after #around #been #fiction #five

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role. ↗

— Jared Harris

#assumed #cast #i #lawyer #lost

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one. ↗

— Jeremy Sumpter

#drinks #eats #either #front #jury