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There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
The trouble with law is lawyers.
Clarence Darrow
I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
Roy Cohn
To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
Felix Frankfurter
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
Adlai E. Stevenson
I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Warren E. Burger
I defended about one hundred forty people for murder in this country and I think in all of the cases I received just one Christmas card from all of these defendants.
Samel Leibowitz
I have argued that lawyers should not engage in litigation tactics that frustrate or distort the search for truth, such as covering up a client's perjury. Lawyers often argue that it is impossible to maintain high ethical standards during a lawsuit. You may not want to play hardball, but if the other side does, you feel no choice but to respond in turn ..."
Law Professor Joseph G. Allegretti
The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.
Judge Irving Kaufman
It is lawyers who run our civilization for us - our governments, our businesses, our private lives... We cannot buy a home or rent an apartment, we cannot get married or try to get divorced, we cannot leave our property to our children without calling on the lawyers to guide us. To guide us, incidentally, through a maze of confusing gestures and formalities that lawyers have created... The legal trade, in short, is nothing but a high-class racket.
Fred Rodell, Professor of Law, Yale University
When will there be too many lawyers? Never.
Thomas E. Brennan, President, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
F. Lee Bailey
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. usually they're not smarter.
F. Lee Bailey
I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.
Melvin Belli
All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.
Alan Dershowitz
The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court Justice
... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession.
Chief Justice Warren Burger
The legal process, beacuse of its unbridled growth, has become a cancer which threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy.
Lawrence Silberman
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