Your lawyer in practice spends a considerable part of his life doing distasteful things for disagreeable people who must be satisfied against an impossible time limit in which are hourly interruptions from other disagreeable people who want to derail the train; and for his blood, sweat, and tears, he receives in the end a few unkind words to the effect that it might have been done better, and a protest at the size of the fee.
— William L. Prossner
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
— Henry Kissinger
The difficult task, after one learns how to think like a lawyer, is relearning how to write like a human being.
— Floyd Abrams
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