Top 100 Quotes About Courtroom

#1. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus

Harper Lee

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#2. I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

John E. Jones III

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#3. And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

Lance Ito

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#4. Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

Nelson Mandela

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#5. absolute silence of the courtroom,

Grant Boshoff

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#6. It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.

Isaac Asimov

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#7. I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there's a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Lance Ito

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#8. Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Mary McGrory

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#9. Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#10. I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

Nancy Grace

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#11. From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Harper Lee

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#12. If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito

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#13. Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

Gabriel Macht

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#14. You're full of it. It's not against the law to run."
"Yes it is. Especially for us.

Kenneth Eade

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#15. People in the courtroom let loose with their disgust, cursing us, d
ning us, we who had become less than human. Marranos. Pigs.
As for me, I felt something rise in my throat: the horror of the world of men.

Alice Hoffman

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#16. Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-f-king-proposals ... and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not
getting laid." What am I doing wrong?

Bill Hicks

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#17. Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

Jeffrey Toobin

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#18. Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

Johnnie Cochran

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#19. Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

Lance Ito

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#20. Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.

Jeffery Deaver

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#21. The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

Lindsey Graham

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#22. Gentle in manners and voice, and yet in the courtroom that gentleness burned itself away and left behind something brutal and cold.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#23. The rules of war for federal court were contained in the 86 rules of federal civil procedure, the rules of the local federal court, and the courtroom rules of the particular federal judge.

Kenneth Eade

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#24. All I can tell you is that we have to re-live the gospel every time we pray. We have to re-live it every time we go to church. We have to re-live the gospel on the spot and ask ourselves what we are doing in the courtroom. We should not be there. The court is adjourned.

Timothy Keller

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#25. How many captains of stolen ships did it take to equal one disgraced UN official? That could tie a courtroom up for a few decades.

James S.A. Corey

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#26. Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

Barbara Demick

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#27. Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.

Jerome Lawrence

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#28. The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.

Uche Okafor

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#29. I love being in a courtroom.

Kamala Harris

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#30. Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.

Eric Holder

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#31. By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

Steven Pacey

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#32. There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys
prosecution and defense
dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke that the lawyers did not laugh at.

Michael Connelly

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#33. Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

William Rehnquist

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#34. Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

Laurence Stallings

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#35. We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Warren E. Burger

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#36. He gave, took, told her with every stroke what he hadn't been able to convey with words, communicated what he'd felt from the moment he saw her enter the courtroom, and knew, in that instant, that he'd been blessed and doomed in the same heartbeat.

Sandra Brown

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#37. Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

Vincent Bugliosi

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#38. For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

Marcia Clark

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#39. There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

Fred Thompson

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#40. The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

Saadi

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#41. Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.

Jerome Lawrence

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#42. [Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

Ann Coulter

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#43. I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.

Peter Ackroyd

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#44. OJ Simpson was in a different kind of courtroom this week attempting to regain custody of his two children. In order to prove to the court how much he loves his kids, OJ pointed out quote 'Hey, they're still alive, aren't they?'

Norm MacDonald

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#45. Why did everyone keep demanding "evidence" and "facts"? I swear, cop and courtroom dramas were ruining the good name of gut instinct.

Chloe Neill

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#46. As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

Elizabeth Strout

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#47. The whole truth is a luxury. In case you are looking for it, a courtroom isn't the place to either start or end the search.

Avirook Sen

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#48. It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die

Thomas Page McBee

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#49. The only way in which all men in America are equal, is in the courtroom - Atticus

Harper Lee

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#50. I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.

Tal McThenia

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#51. In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

Woody Harrelson

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#52. In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair

Phil Ochs

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#53. Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom.

Sophie Kinsella

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#54. Your Honor, if giving the finger is a motive for murder, then most everyone in this courtroom would be on trial

Kenneth Eade

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#55. Nice guys may finish last, but in a courtroom they are king.

Kenneth Eade

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#56. A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.

Melvin Belli

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#57. People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.

Assata Shakur

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#58. Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Jerome Lawrence

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#59. Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

Larry Flynt

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#60. If John Grisham, Harper Lee, and Larry the Cable Guy were penned up in a remote cabin for a weekend with nothing but good bourbon, fine wine, and a couple of cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, something like Common Pleas (A Tale of Whoa!) might result...

J. Randolph Cresenzo

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#61. To this it must be added, that life in a wig is to a large class of people much more terrifying and impressive than life with its own head of hair ...

Charles Dickens

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#62. Courtroom dramas can be boring.

Laura Linney

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#63. I object!
What?
Bugger, was that acting?
Is not courtroom, Katya.
Shut up! I'm not good at having two conversations at once. And I hate Scott's plan!
You mean you "object" to it.

Joss Whedon

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#64. When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable.

Robert Osborne

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#65. To avoid being manhandled, as soon as the judge said, "Remove the defendant from the courtroom," i would say, "The defendant will remove herself." Most of the time it worked, but one day the marshals were so gung ho they jumped on me and started brutalizing me in open kourt.

Assata Shakur

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#66. The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement.

Rumi

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#67. Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Don Henley

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#68. I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

Mae West

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#69. I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.

Dominick Dunne

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#70. Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that "Miracle on 34th Street", strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face.

Landis Wade

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#71. If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

Michael Ponsor

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#72. It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood that I was guilty.

Albert Camus

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#73. I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

Nancy Grace

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#74. To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

Jerry O'Connell

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#75. It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

Robert Downey, Sr.

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#76. Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

H.L. Mencken

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#77. A society can survive bad donkey drivers. But it cannot survive contempt for truth - whether inside or outside a courtroom.

Dennis Prager

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#78. I tell you, dear Citizen Camille - it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.

Hilary Mantel

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#79. Turned back around before she could focus on him. It was at this moment that the black-robed Judge Christian Abernathy stepped into the courtroom. He was old, bespectacled, and frail, and his white hair, what was left of

David Baldacci

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#80. People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.

Eugenie Scott

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#81. I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

Bruce Forsyth

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#82. Hot dog? Bible? Now that poses a problem! Which is hungrier-my stomach or my soul?

Jerome Lawrence

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#83. I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.'

Aaron Douglas

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#84. I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different.

Susan Downey

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#85. force them to band together. Jim imagined himself and Franny striding into a Mallorcan courtroom, the bump on Franny's head now the size of a tennis ball, hard proof of Antoni's negligence. "And how are you?" Charles asked. He purposefully

Emma Straub

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#86. Again, no disrespect intended, but she looked to me like a divorce that hadn't found a courtroom yet.

James Anderson

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#87. Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

Scott Turow

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#88. Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#89. A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.

Harry Browne

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#90. There's not one film that I've ever made that could get made today by a studio, not one - even 'A Few Good Men' because it's an adult courtroom drama, and studios do not make them any more. And so every movie that I make, have made and will make is always going be independently financed.

Rob Reiner

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#91. Thanks for calling. Be safe and I can't wait to see you."
"Hang tight, sweetheart. I'll be with you in spirit tomorrow and watching over you from close by."
Her throat tightened. His words gave her additional strength to take into the courtroom with her.

Kaylea Cross

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#92. And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

Pablo Neruda

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#93. In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

Nathaniel Branden

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#94. He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.

Kenneth Eade

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#95. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.

Eric Holder

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#96. What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.

Patricia Millett

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#97. One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him.

James Kirkwood

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#98. By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.

Joe Jamail

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#99. The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool. College examinations notwithstanding, it takes a very smart fella to say I don't know the answer!

Jerome Lawrence

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#100. If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

Mike Tyson

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