It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society
If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you can take unlimited depreciation and use it to offset your income from other areas and pay little in tax. One of the biggest real estate tax lawyers in New York said to me, if you're a major real estate family and you're paying income taxes, you should sue your tax lawyer for malpractice.
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
Everyone ought to take every opportunity to blast lawyers.
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.
The law is hard but it is the law.
Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.
What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.
Dentists, lawyers, doctors are all a bunch of thieving bastards.
A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.
Lawyers are always confident before the verdict. It's only after that they share their doubts.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.
I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.
This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.
Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer.