Legal Quotes

“While we may not be able to please everyone, there are some things that can be done to demonstrate a commitment of maintaining a publication of the highest ethical quality and honesty.”

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“Everybody deserves a defense.”

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The job of a criminal defense lawyer isn’t to decide who deserves the best possible defense and who needs to spend time in prison.

-Johnnie Cochran

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Good Lawyers are storytellers.

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“ No man shall profit from his own wrong.”

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My role, as a criminal defense lawyer, as all criminal defense lawyers, is to see that a client gets a fair trial and tat’s- and what goes into that is that you must test the government’s case or the people’s case or whatever it is, a whether or not you believe in the client’s innocence.

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That’s kind of morphed at this point, for a variety or reasons, into this caricature of what a defense lawyer is. It’s Bobby Donnell on “The Practice,” it’s the James Spader character on “Boston Legal,” where it’s people who are shaving the corners and rounding edges, as opposed t what l have always thought being a criminal defense lawyer is, which is being the last kind of bulwark against an attack on the Constitution. 

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If l went to work in a factory, the first thing I’d do would be to join a Union

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Seek justice, correct oppression.”

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“They can now come and give excuses as to why the state of Delaware with 100 or more attorneys can’t count” and file on time, he said. “And the judge will have to rule on excuses.”

-Thomas Neuberger,

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“ The powerful people can say what they want. I’m going to stand up for the little guy.”

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Civility. Civility may be the most misunderstood aspect of professionalism. Too often it is equated with a working knowledge of Miss Manner’s guides, but civility is about much more than good manners. It’s about treating everyone with the same respect and courtesy. The most respected Stewards are those who never seek to deny persons their dignity.   

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“I continue to stand up and fight the injustices we face in the Postal Service, and l will always oppose those who deny us our rights.”

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