#lawyer

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

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#death #death penalty #done #frankly #got

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#best #cheapest #compromise #lawyer

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

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

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. ↗

— Patrick Murray

#case #even #lawyer #sometimes #tell

I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#books #enough #finally #however #i

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#corruption #court-system #courts #ethical-behaviour #ethics

Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#lawyers #radicals #change

If I were a lawyer, I’d only date women named Sue. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #lawyer #dating