Great Law Quotes

Here is a collection of some of my favourite quotes regarding the law, lawyers and other legal professionals, of all time!

Law … begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not like.
- Karl Llewellyn

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost

Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
- Hart Pomerantz

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
- W. S. Gilbert

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
- Charles Dickens

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, two men are called a law firm, and three or more become a Congress.
- John Adams, in the play “1776″

Lawyers are just like physicians: what one says, the other contradicts.
- Sholom Aleichem 

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a “brief.”
- Franz Kafka 

Lawyers are the only profession where the more there are, the more are needed!
- Robert Lucky, IEEE Spectrum

“My daddy is a movie actor, and sometimes he plays the good guy, and sometimes he plays the lawyer.”
- Malcolm Ford, to his preschool classmates on what his father, actor Harrison Ford, does for a living.

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