LAWYER QUOTES VIII

quotations about lawyers

Robot lawyers would make sense given the tricky road we're inevitably facing when it comes to robotics law and maybe even robot rights. If robots become the subjects of laws and protections, then perhaps they should learn how to navigate the system. Of course, as with everything else, we run the risk of being surpassed in skill and acumen by our robotic counterparts. Although by then, robot judges may be banging gavels and silencing courtrooms, as well as naysayers.

JOELLE RENSTROM

"Robots Are Taking White Collar Jobs, Too", The Daily Beast, June 4, 2016

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The great trial lawyers are the ones who help their jurors by providing them with the tools with which to reach the right verdict.

G. CHRISTOPHER RITTER

Powerful Deliberations


There is, then, no use in endeavouring to blind yourself to the fact that lawyers are looked upon with little favour by the public. There are, doubtless, various legitimate sources of the aversion entertained towards them. One of these is the "mystery" which always hangs, and always has hung, about the lawyer's "craft." I take this to be one of the very worst attributes of the profession. It is one which has always been fostered and encouraged by the members of the profession themselves. To be the favoured medium for invoking justice is, certainly, to be placed in a somewhat imposing position; and to shroud oneself in the sable gown of mystery, allowing only glimpses of one's sacred virtue occasionally to peep forth, is, doubtless, calculated to strike an awe into beholders. The priests of old did it, and very successfully imposed upon the multitude, till ONE came who taught truth in a few plain words, which the simplest could understand. The members of the profession forget that there is nothing so very sacred about their vocation, that the multitude will be content to look upon their mysterious scrolls, and phrases, and their incomprehensible proceedings, with the same reverence which the priests of old were able to command as the ministers of religion. I fancy the multitude tolerate the mystery which envelopes all persons and things legal, chiefly because they regard lawyers as a "necessary evil"--for as long as there is any law, it must be administered and interpreted by persons especially qualified; and the endeavour would be as misplaced, as it would be hopeless, for persons engaged in other affairs, which are sufficient to occupy all their time and attention, to "turn their own lawyers." The study of the law can never be made either so simple or so attractive, as to avoid the necessity of its being a distinct, and somewhat exclusive, profession.

JOB ORTON SMITH

The Lawyer and His Profession


There are a few reasons why lawyers are so morally corrupt. But the most important reason is because ruthless money hungry, and blood sucking parasites are very attracted to that profession.

AARON ROSS

The Final Chapter


Rattle a lawyer's door and you get more lawyers.

C. J. CHERRYH

Chanur's Legacy

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Lawyers are like cheeses. There are lots of good ones, but not everybody likes the taste of some or can afford the best of others.

ROBIN ELLISON

The Pension Trustee's Handbook


It does seem asinine to tolerate a system under which the lawyers always win, whether heads or tails come up.

FRANK CRAMER

The Case of the People Against the Lawyers and the Courts


People who use lawyers are not people you would really want to hang around with.

DEBORAH ROSS

attributed, Lives of Lawyers


As to lawyers, their profession is supported by the indiscriminate defense of right and wrong.

JUNIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

JOHN KEATS

letter to George and Georgiana Keats, Mar. 13, 1819

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Lawyers are the only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Studying the law and "learning to think like a lawyer" are transformative but not necessarily in a good way. I have always believed people are born with rough ideas of fairness imprinted in their subconscious. In law school, a new lawyer learns to ignore those ideas. Instead, lawyers are taught that procedural rules must take precedence over what a lay person might think is a just result. Those who conclude the legal system is a form of the children's game of "Mother May I" learn to keep that opinion to themselves.

CRAIG VAN MATRE

"Good lawyers strive for justice", Columbia Daily Tribune, April 3, 2016


It is a secret worth knowing, that lawyers rarely go to law.

MOSES CROWELL

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lawyers are like doctors. They've each a secret language of their own so that if you get a letter from one lawyer you've got to take it to another to get it read, just like a doctor sends you to a chemist with a rigmarole that no one else can read, so they can charge you what they like for a drop of colored water.

HAROLD BRIGHOUSE

Hobson's Choice


In tribal times, there were the medicine men. In the Middle Ages, there were the priests. Today, there are the lawyers. For every age, a group of bright boys, learned in their trades and jealous of their learning, who blend technical competence with plain and fancy hocus-pocus to make themselves masters of their fellow men. For every age, a pseudo-intellectual autocracy, guarding the tricks of the trade from the uninitiated, and running, after its own pattern, the civilization of its day.

FRED RODELL

Woe Unto You, Lawyers!

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Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

DAVID MELLOR

"Question Time", BBC1, Dec. 3, 1992

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A lawyer and a cart wheel must be greased.

JOHN R. BEARD

The Rational Primer


Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.

JOHN GIERACH

Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing