Lawyer Quotes - Page 40

• Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle cases and although that's not trial work and I don't have to go to court, it kind of satisfies the need I have to practice still and I have transitioned into readiness not to be in trial anymore. It took a little while for me to get used to not doing it and I did miss it for a few years, but eventually I transferred into another life.

  Marcia Clark

  Years, Practice, Missing

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• There is interest in a crime-based reality show. With my novels, we are now editing the second book in a series about a defense lawyer whose name is Samantha Brinkman. And I am reviewing speaking engagement opportunities.

  Marcia Clark

  Book, Opportunity, Reality

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• 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.

  Peter Jacobson

  Doctors, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

  James Lipton

  Mother, Art, Father

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• 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.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Age, Dangerous

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• Basically what you want in any profession - I would say the same thing if I were a lawyer or a doctor - is you want bright undergraduates to look at your profession as something they would be interested in getting into.

  Louis Menand

  Doctors, Would Be, Looks

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• It's not uncommon in the entertainment world for agents to sign young talent. It's sinful that these players can't be represented by lawyers and agents when they're in school. If a player wants to hire someone to seek his value - in any other walk of life, except where this farcical entity that is the NCAA is involved - having a lawyer or agent isn't illegal. It's just the NCAA imposing its own set of rules. It's selfish on their part.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Selfish, School, Player

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine suit and the Ivy League education, was more valued than the minority without the education. But on the island, the rules are changed. It's the person who can make a fire or who can make friends. A kind human soul is valued.

  Scott Raab

  Fire, Islands, Glasses

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

  Frank Dane

  Funny, Time, Money

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• Then, as she turned to walk away, Fred dropped the guillotine."So we're making Ev CEO," he said, his fork clenched in his hand. "You're going to get a passive chairman role and a silent board seat. We have some paperwork for you and a recommendation for a lawyer."Jack felt like he had just been hit in the face with a baseball bat. "Say that again," he stuttered to Fred, thinking he had heard incorrectly.Fred repeated himself almost verbatim: We're making Ev CEO. You're getting a passive chairman role. You will have a silent board seat. Here's the paperwork. Call a lawyer.

  Nick Bilton

  Baseball, Thinking, Hands

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• I work at a record label where I have archives. These things [memorabilia] occurred and are important to somebody, and they're important to me. I find the record industry largely repellent. This music, the Teen Idles, all of that stuff, is important to me. I don't have lawyers, an agent or a manager. However I find the music industry largely repellent. I just make records because that's what I love to do. So I think that era, those pieces of media, I keep in my collection.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Media, Important

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Opportunity, Southern

  Source: www.slate.com

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• [Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the judge that discovered the Defense Department lawyers were lying to him in open court, and instead of actually sanctioning them, he demanded that they go to a new ethics course to learn the proper behavior and decorum and the law in court, that you just can't lie with impunity to a judge.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Law, Judging

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Should Have, Kind, Contracts

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Father, War

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Very quickly the lawyers in the Justice Department pulled together a set of recommendations about how we ought to defend the law as a constitutional matter. And it was the lawyers in the Justice Department who thought that it was important to include the tax power argument as part of it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Law, Justice, Important

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so that, even if you've prepared to talk about the topic, the question is put in such an excruciatingly difficult way that there's just no good way to handle it.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Justice, Way, Topics

  "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did.

  David Farrier

  Sleep, Tickling, Losing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Samuel Alito

  College, Graduates, Wanted

  "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.

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• It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority.

  Edward Kennedy

  Views, Justice, Judging

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I will release my tax returns - against my lawyer's wishes - when she releases her 33,000 e-mails that have been deleted. As soon as she releases them, I will release.

  Donald Trump

  Wish, Mail, Return

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I will release my tax returns. And that's against - my lawyers, they say, "Don't do it." I will tell you this. No - in fact, watching shows, they're reading the papers. Almost every lawyer says, you don't release your returns until the audit's complete.

  Donald Trump

  Reading, Paper, Return

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.

  Chukwudi Iwuji

  Dream, Teacher, Children

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• 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.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Reality, Criminals, Vulnerable

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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