I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
Painting is like being a lawyer and attacking a corporation.
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.
Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.
Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say. . . . This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.
Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.
I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.