Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude.” Behavioral scientists use this term to describe the choices, and perceived choices, a person has. In a sense, it’s another way of describing autonomy—and lawye...
Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer d...
For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the Peop...
I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix Street lawyer. Stanwix Street is a street in downtown Pittsburgh. One of the clients is Mellon Bank, which merged with the Bank of New York Mellon a...
Lawyer: The unlimited checkbook. That's how Big Tobacco wins every time on everything, they spend you to death. Six hundred million a year in outside legal - Chadbourne-Park, uh, Ken Starr's firm, Kirkland & Ellis? Listen: GM and Ford, they get naile...
My father was a lawyer.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
I'm a hard headed lawyer.
Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
When I'm clean-shaven and bathed, I look like a lawyer.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
To be a lawyer was too boring for me, for my personality.
Lawyers are lubricants are complicated social intercourse.
They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.
As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.
Royal: [to Chas] Well... you sued me... twice. Got me disbarred. I don't hold it against you, do I? [cut to Chas and Royal in court, sitting with their lawyers in front of the Judge] Judge: And how is it possible for Mr. Tenenbaum to withdraw these f...
