It's important to give back to people.
The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
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.
In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.
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 are not smarter.
Most people think that 'I don't recall' is a clever answer. But it isn't that clever. You might not recall that you had bacon and eggs for breakfast- but if you killed your mother, you'll remember it.
Now let us bandy words no more. . . nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
I've always said that I worry about being with a man who doesn't flirt.
More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.