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Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.
I considered going into business or becoming a lawyer - not for the money, but for the thrill of problem-solving.
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.
The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.
Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.
I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or engineer.
In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst.
If you send emails to your spouse or your lawyer or family members, you want to have these messages be confidential.
Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
How lawyers make work for one another! You're all priests, worshipping the same god. No wonder you adore one another.
The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully.
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.
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.
In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'
My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
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.
A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
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.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
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.
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.
My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
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.
I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.
Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.
My background is not typical of a lawyer or a DPP. My dad was a toolmaker before he retired, so he worked in a factory all his life.
The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
I was happy being a lawyer, and the thought of becoming a model or even actor never came to my mind, even though I knew I looked good.
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings