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It's nothing more than just piling on. It's shameful ... It makes me angry, both as her lawyer and an American.

For his entire adult life, John Roberts has been a disciple of and promoted a political and legal ideology that is antithetical to an America that embraces all, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, ... I have no doubt he's an accomplished lawyer and an affable dinner companion, but that doesn't make him any less a mortal danger to equal rights for gay people, reproductive freedom and affirmative action.

Foreman told Ray to plead guilty and he'd then give his brother $500, if Ray didn't cause any problems at the guilty plea hearing, and he could take that $500 and hire a lawyer to set aside the plea. Foreman actually put that in writing.

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.

For an ordinary, small-town lawyer, he accomplished incredible things. He reached heights one wouldn't expect of an African-American lawyer -- or any lawyer coming from his background. And these days, no one knows it.

It's good to see a veteran player get a job. Great team guy. Credit to him to go back to school and get his degree. Better (to) have Stu there than some lawyer we don't know.

It's pretty clear from the more than 60,000 pages of documents that have been released that John Roberts has a great sense of humor. In this memo, he offers a lawyer joke.

The new reviewing entity would examine randomly selected advertisements for compliance with the rules related to lawyer advertising. It would put in place a much-needed formal mechanism to methodically review advertising and ensure effective enforcement of advertising rules.

The nomination of John Roberts has evolved considerably since July, when the White House was successful in portraying him as a lawyer above the fray.... Almost daily revelations coming out of the Reagan presidential library show someone at the epicenter of a comprehensive assault on fundamental rights that have been part of the law for decades,

Even when I'm playing a lawyer or a doctor, I want to play a person. A human being.

That sounds better than it is in operation. Medicaid patients frequently have difficulty finding a doctor, so to expect a doctor to put the time and energy into becoming an amateur lawyer is asking a lot.

Each of my artists was affiliated with a gang at one point in their life- the Crips, Bloods and BGDs. This record will be the first time that members of these groups has come together peacefully and produced something really great, ... This project will further people's minds- knowing that there are other options than that lifestyle- whether it be basketball, rapping, furthering your education or becoming a lawyer or doctor.

No amount of justice could bring them back or replace the emptiness I feel, but I'm glad he's off the streets. My girls are gone forever; they can't be a teacher or a lawyer like two of them dreamed of.

It's cheaper for us to pay a lawyer and tie it up in court than it is to pay the tax bill.

I've known him for eight years, ... He's a fighter. He fought this trial. He didn't get a lawyer when a lot of us told him he had to get a lawyer, and I imagine he'll fight to retain his seat.

No lawyer Saddam Hussein has known before the U.S. invasion has seen him, ... He never has had anything approaching counsel of his own choosing?. There has been no ability to begin to prepare a defense.

It will be the equivalent of having your priest or rabbi, your lawyer or your wife, testifying against you.

The world seemed so full or rules and regulations, I thought it would be helpful to be a lawyer to thread one's way through that.

They have received threats. One lawyer was murdered and they do not trust the government or the Americans to protect them,

It was great, he was a lawyer and had some repossession stuff in the basement, ping pong table, video games, all that stuff. They were a great family and really helped me.

Any trial lawyer will tell you that juries have a life of their own.

I'm glad Lawyer Ron didn't disappoint the people. It was a little tight on the first turn. But once he made the lead, I was confident, even though there were still 5 furlongs to run.

I'm not even a lawyer but it feels like I've had about two years of law school on immigration.

I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.

I'm running for this office for only one reason. For 35 years I've always been a people's lawyer in and out of office, getting things done for consumers and workers. ... It has nothing to do with career and everything to do with my lifelong fight for consumers and workers.

I'm OK, It would be the first free lawyer I've ever spoken with.

If Lawyer Ron runs his race, then we're all probably running for second. He's been very impressive.

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

I guess he felt he needed to make some money. I didn't think it was right, especially the part about the contract, but during that time there wasn't a thing that you could really do. You couldn't go get a lawyer to go against Miller. This is the way it was.

I'm very happy with the draw. If Lawyer Ron could win this, he'd be one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby. It's your lifelong dream.

I must say, as a lawyer myself, reading this on the face, my colleagues raise a legitimate question.

I'm an East Kilbride boy. I couldn't even spell lawyer in those days, far less have one. No, I represented myself. Mind you, I did appeal a three-match ban and after speaking at the hearing it was increased to five." ()

I had actually studied political science in college. I had dreams of being a lawyer at one time.

If you are a lawyer you are filing something just like Clarence Hill as we speak.

If you lined up Lawyer Ron and Red Raymond and had to choose which one would win the Kentucky Derby, it would be Red Raymond. He's a good-looking horse.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor, ... There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way -- I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

I know our judges here will be practical and take into account that there's only so much a lawyer can do to make certain his client is being complete and truthful.

I presume Mr. Martin knew what his lawyer was saying,

If you're a lawyer and you're not motivated by money, that would probably seem like the most important job there is.

By law, no judge or defense lawyer was allowed to be present in the grand jury room. Furthermore, the defense had no opportunity to call its own witnesses to rebut or criticize this one-sided proceeding.

Being a good lawyer . . . is best taught by others who have been there, done that. That's what he did.

Being labor lawyers, it hits you where you live. It's like the shoemaker's children. Being a good labor lawyer doesn't mean you're going to have good labor relations. There's no correlation. It's just not good here; it's very unsophisticated, it's very adversarial.

Can you expect your lawyer to know those? I don't think they're in any law books.

By the time he put down the memoir, he was quite old and going blind. He had moved from Poultney to Georgia, Vt. He recited the book to a white lawyer friend named Benjamin Prentiss who recorded it.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

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.

He's terribly upset about the fact that he can't teach right now. He's so upset and I am now his lawyer and we will be going to federal court.

How can you expect a general-practice lawyer like her to go head to head with a Stephen Breyer?

I don't think in Illinois a foreign lawyer has been given that status before at the federal level.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

He took a long time to make this decision and he looked at a bunch of other people. He wanted an excellent lawyer who had good administrative skills, an idea of what the problems in the office were and turn it around.

He thought because he didn't carry the money out of the restaurant that he could get out of the charges. He didn't know extortion is the threat, not the exchange of money. When his lawyer realized he was going away, that he wouldn't have a chance of any kind of dealing with the Feds, he assumed he needed to do something, I guess, to justify him getting his fee. So, he called the Knoxville paper and told them who I was. On the complaint I was just listed as 'victim.

And God said 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan.'

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

I call my lawyer and say, 'Can I ask you two questions?' He says, 'What's the second question?'

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

Each lawyer makes somebody unhappy either by beating him, embarrassing him or tying him in knots.

In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

Lawyers sometimes tell the truth. They'll do anything to win a case.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

I don't think there's a lawyer alive and working who's ever appeared in any part of a treason case and I think we should tread in that historic territory very carefully,

I asked my lawyer to look into the possibility of whether we should go to court, too. We'll see if justice is there for all or justice for (a) few.

I am very sorry that some colleagues, some lawyers -- because I too am a lawyer -- were killed,

I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one.

He's got all the attributes of a good horse. He's good enough that he makes his own luck. He can run on the front end, but he doesn't have to have the lead. I don't know about everybody else, but I know Lawyer Ron is the real deal.

He becomes the most sought-after lawyer once it is discovered he is actually a rat.

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Lawyers houses are built on the heads of fooles.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.

Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.