#lawyer

I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#because #career #i #idea #just

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#civil #civil rights #clear #could #exercise

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#artist #choices #doctor #firemen #i

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine. ↗

— Zach Braff

#dad #form #i #know #lawyer

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#beauty #cheney #curse #daily #daily show

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress. ↗

— Geraldine Ferraro

#elected #i #lawyer #trial #trial lawyer

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#doctors #kill #lawyers #merely #only

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

— Lloyd Norton Cutler

#argument #could #duty #lawyer #made

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#lawyers #lies #lying #truth #imagination

The law is so complex and voluminous that no one, not even the most knowledgeable lawyer, can understand it all. Moreover, lawyers and legal scholars have not gone out of their way to make the law accessible to the ordinary person. Just the opposite: Legal professionals, like the priests of some obscure religion, too often try to keep the law mysterious and inaccessible. ↗

— Jay Feinman

#law #lawyers #order #politics #society