HAPPY THURSDAY THIRTEEN!! - Funny quotes on lawyers

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. - Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. - Clarence Darrow

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is. - Roy Cohn

To some lawyers all facts are created equal. Felix Frankfurter

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai E. Stevenson

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. - Warren E. Burger

I defended about one hundred forty people for murder in this country and I think in all of the cases I received just one Christmas card from all of these defendants. - Samuel Leibowitz

I have argued that lawyers should not engage in litigation tactics that frustrate or distort the search for truth, such as covering up a client's perjury. Lawyers often argue that it is impossible to maintain high ethical standards during a lawsuit. You may not want to play hardball, but if the other side does, you feel no choice but to respond in turn ..." - Law Professor Joseph G. Allegretti

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger. - Judge Irving Kaufman

It is lawyers who run our civilization for us - our governments, our businesses, our private lives... We cannot buy a home or rent an apartment, we cannot get married or try to get divorced, we cannot leave our property to our children without calling on the lawyers to guide us. To guide us, incidentally, through a maze of confusing gestures and formalities that lawyers have created... The legal trade, in short, is nothing but a high-class racket. - Fred Rodell, Professor of Law, Yale University

When will there be too many lawyers? Never. - Thomas E. Brennan, President, Thomas M. Cooley Law School

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone. - F. Lee Bailey