I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.
I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.
No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases. And if they do not know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs who handle criminal cases. It's very incestuous.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.
I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.
Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft. " The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft. "
A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.
Law, without force, is impotent.
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O. J. Simpson case.
You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.