A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose.
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.
The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.