Lawyering Up Quotes & Sayings

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape. — Ronn Torossian

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. — Karl Kraus

The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single. — Steve Trotter

He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all. — John Grisham

The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome. — Catherine Crier

Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him. — Michael Crichton

Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for. — Robert E.Lee

There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending. — Sergio De La Pava

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

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far. — Jonathan Safran Foer

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob. — William Landay

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift. — Sonia Sotomayor

The law is a crude machine at best, and only spits out something approaching justice of its attendants are committed to justice. As lawyering has become less about doing right and more about doing what you can get away with, our standards of acceptable shenanigans-as-usual seem to be in a free fall. — Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! — Jimmy Buffett

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people. — Lynne Stewart

What did I know about lawyering? I just thought it was another way to stay in Austin for another three years. — Joe Jamail

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A computer search would have given me a list of pertinent cases, but without that I had to read everything. That is harder by far, but you end up learning a lot more. I was forced to remember cases because making copies of everything was too expensive. Keeping cases in your head is good, too, because cases are like puzzle pieces floating around in your mind, and sometimes, in moments of creativity, they fall into place and form a picture. If they were words on a screen that you could pull up anytime you wished, that phenomenon wouldn't happen as easily. — Shon Hopwood

As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system
the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges
would take care of that; they didn't need his help. — Scott Turow

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. — Shannon L. Alder

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations. — Michelle Williams

Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time. — Neal Stephenson

Physicians should be genotyped. — Anne Wojcicki

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop. — George F. Will

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering. — Charles Soule