Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Those who hate lawyers, have either hired the wrong one and lost, represented themselves and lost, or had such a bad case that no lawyer could win it.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

That is the beauty of the Common Law it is a maze and not a motorway.

It's kind of funny to me listening to people who claim to have these great records of winning a hundred and some odd straight felony cases without a loss and that kind of stuff that you hear of all the time. I'm here to tell you, if you let me pick out which hundred cases I get to try, I'll win a hundred of them in a row, too. Case selection is everything in creating records like that. My philosophy was, I tried them all. If I made a determination that the evidence was sufficient to justify the prosecution, then I would try the case, and certainly whenever you do that, you're going to lose a certain percentage of them.

If life was fair ... One third of the people would comprise of judges and lawyers ... One third of police and prison officials ... And one third of legislators ... And one third more to make the other three thirds make any sense at all .... Thank goodness for no fair.

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.