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A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible. ↗


— Joyce Carol Oates


#business

The Business of Our Firm is Business" -Donald W. Hudspeth from: "The Business of America is Business" -Calvin Coolidge ↗


— Calvin Coolidge


#business #business-advice #business-start-up #chapter #dispute

However...," Satan said. Bick sighed. "However, I didn't count on the growing interference of lawyers, regulators, bureaucrats and politicians into my business. I swear it seems that every year they stick their noses into more and more." Lucifer chuckled. "Sorry about that-I outdid myself there. ↗


— R.S. Belcher


#politicians #business

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


— Susan Elizabeth Phillips


#lawyers #radicals #change

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth. ↗


— Pete Morin


#lawyers #small-fish #money

If you are a millionaire beset by blackmailers or anyone else to whose comfort the best legal advice is essential, and have decided to put your affairs in the hands of the ablest and discreetest firm in London, you proceed through a dark and grimy entry and up a dark and grimy flight of stairs; and, having felt your way along a dark and grimy passage, you come at length to a dark and grimy door. There is plenty of dirt in other parts of Ridgeway's Inn, but nowhere is it so plentiful, so rich in alluvial deposits, as on the exterior of the offices of Marlowe, Thorpe, Prescott, Winslow and Appleby. As you tap on the topmost of the geological strata concealing the ground-glass of the door, a sense of relief and security floods your being. For in London grubbiness is the gauge of a lawyer's respectability. ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#respect

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. ↗


— Charles Dickens


#lawyers #curiosity

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

Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up. ↗


— Danny DeVito


#course #else #everyone #everything #got






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