I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.
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.
I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.
Why are scientists now using lawyers in laboratory experiments instead of rats? Three reasons: (1) lawyers are more plentiful than rats, (2) there is no danger the scientists will become attached to the lawyers, and (3) there are some things rats just won't do.
Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.
[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over.
So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent
The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.
Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.
I dont want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!
As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.
I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.