#lawyers

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

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

My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things. ↗

— Steve Case

#brothers #building #expectation #fascinated #father

Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#attended #because #been #concern #fair

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big. ↗

— David Crosby

#big #companies #definitely #get #lawyers

That the decision is taken away from the voters, and as in 2000 turned over to the lawyers and the courts. ↗

— John Fund

#courts #decision #lawyers #over #taken

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#clever people #journalists #lawyers #now #people

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#dam #get #lawyers #like #middle

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#enjoy #everybody #forward #know #lawyers

Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too! ↗

— James Belushi

#almost #because #congress #every #going