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Lawyers Quotes

A lawyer requires a good knowledge of the practical application of all that he has learned to survive in this world! This involves the abstract legal theories and specific knowledge of the society. A lawyer has various general responsibilities to look after. This includes representing clients during court procedures, negotiations and other legal arrangements, where there is a need to discuss the law. There are various other responsibilities, apart from arguing in court, like maintaining client contact and looking after the legal documentation. A judge is considered as the final authority who decides, based on hearings, how justice must be served. In India, lawyers are called advocates and in the United States of America, they are called attorneys. But, what matters is that they all have the same functions to perform.

A lawyer has various general responsibilities to look after. This includes representing their clients, during court procedures, negotiations, and other legal arrangements where there is a need to discuss the law. There are various other responsibilities rather than arguing in court like maintaining client contact and look after the legal documentation. Lawyers play a significant role in countries where democracy is on the edge and empower them by fighting for their rights. According to researchers, there is also a darker side to this profession. Lawyers have been seen to be prone to mental diseases like depression, and researchers suggest law schools educate students about this mental illness and other challenges they will face in this profession. To read about some famous attorney/lawyer quotations, read the next section.

Charles Lamb

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

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Dan Bongino

The average guy doesn't have an army of lobbyists and lawyers working on his behalf every day in the White House.

Cary Grant

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

Lucille Ball

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Anton Chekhov

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

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Washington Irving

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Bob Woodward

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Antonin Scalia

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

Dan Quayle

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

Megyn Kelly

The most powerful people in my town were the doctors and the lawyers. I didn't really have any experience dealing with really powerful people until I started practicing law.