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The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

My father was a lawyer.

Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."

Science is the engine of prosperity. But you'd never know it, listening to some of the politicians. They're lawyers and businessmen, not scientists. Lawyers and businessmen massage wealth; they don't create it

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!

This country is always changing. But my point about the Supreme Court is the Supreme Court didn't wait for the country to change. Five unelected lawyers overruled 320 million Americans.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.

Oh no, no, no! Are you going to suck my blood? (Amanda Do I look like a lawyer to you? (Kyrian)

Whoever tells the best story wins.

If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.

I thought I wanted to be a lawyer and was going through this growth phase.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

A lawyer is a man who helps you get what is coming to him.

This horse is training like a monster right now - Lawyer Ron. I tell ya, they're going to have to run their race to beat us.

All I kept getting was a royal run-around from everybody locally and overseas. I trusted them to look out for my interest, but everybody was upset that I went public. Not even my lawyer they responded to.

All I can say is, from our end, I never talked to Carl about it until after Lawyer was released.

I'm a hard headed lawyer.

The lawyers doing the sorting for Hillary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as we did for those available to us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find all work-related e-mails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total e-mails remaining on Secretary Clinton's personal system in 2014.

Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

The guy went to hit the big time. He did well in hockey in high school and college and went to New York to join a great law firm and was going to be a partner and was married to a rich, beautiful girl, ... He was following his dream and along the way, he realized how hollow it was. He realized how really unhappy he was. That was in my mind more than anything, not how a lawyer acts.

The Hispanic community of the United States, the nation's largest minority group, has been openly insulted by the failure to even seriously consider a distinguished Hispanic lawyer or judge.

The guy is a lawyer by trade who operates outside the law. It's an easy thing to identify with for me.

You've got to question the judgment of the person. No lawyer would have his client in the dock calling potential witnesses. It could be very suspect in the minds of the jury.

Andrew's lawyer contacted Andrew's accountant, it was clarified and a full payment was wired immediately,

The cherished freedoms that we really need to defend, among them being the right to counsel, the right to having a lawyer that you consult with in absolute privacy -- that's been breached in this case,

I always wanted to be a fireman, a cop, an Indian chief, a doctor, a lawyer. I always wanted to be all these things, so I am drawn to these kinds of characters.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

All of this is for one purpose. It is to make sure that shareholders are aware exactly what's going on and that when they read the proxy statements it's in English and not something where you have to have a lawyer come and explain it to you.

The man has been denied legal access, he has not been given enough legal advice or told of his rights, and he can't see the lawyer of his choice. That is not how it works.

The lawyer can reveal anything he is not forbidden to reveal. There are rules governing what a lawyer can say publicly about a litigation proceeding and those are meant to balance the interest in public discussion and the interest in an untainted trial.

the kind of man you were, how you lived your life, what kind of lawyer you were, not your allegiance to a particular cause.

I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.

I'm a lawyer. I make lawyers for a living.

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.

I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

I don't usually get to play somebody who is, at least, nominally in charge. I'm usually playing somebody's lawyer or a doctor.

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a women who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything!

I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.

I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!

I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

Got a budget for the lawyer though.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

As a child, I actually wanted to be a lawyer. That was the goal. I didn't plan to be an author, and then even less, did I plan to produce movies. It all just happened.

If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer.

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

I hated being a lawyer and I wanted to like myself and like my job.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the legal training." "Well, I'm sure it wasn't part of Damon Taru's legal training.

Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

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.

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.

I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character.

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Lawyer even sounds like liar.