3,047 Quotes About Law

Recognize that the legal adversarial system us a flawed way to find the truth.

Recognize that the legal adversarial system is a flawed way to find the truth.

Courtrooms (can) be exciting arenas where combating attorneys (fight) out issues of life and death, but there (is) nothing exciting about a courtroom where tired old loves (go) to die, or to be exhumed for delayed post-mortem.

You can’t ever really know someone else’s mind or someone else’s heart, what someone else is capable of.

Large firms are interesting places, Mr. Moran. They are their own universe, and the masters of that universe are all-knowing, even when the information is about one of their own.

The other amazing thing about prosecution that prosecutors don't realize while they are in the job is the time they have available to them as opposed to lawyers in the private practice of law. Prosecutors have an incredible amount of time to sit with one another around their offices and talk. Talk about war stories. Talk about this or that cop. Talk about the case. That's what floored me the most when I got out of it - how much free time I'd had and didn't realize it.

On lawyering: When the law is on your side, pound the law; when the facts are on your side, pound the facts; when neither is on your side, pound the table

Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do

Here, paper shuffling was treated seriously, and as a task of great difficulty.