Legal Ethics Quotes:

Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness

- William J. Brennan

topic: Real, Law, People, Legal Ethics, Tenants

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 4, sc. 2, l. [73]

topic: Funny, Inspiration, Law, Law Students, Legal Ethics

Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.

- Thane Rosenbaum

topic: Zero, Order, Justice, Prosecutor, Legal Ethics

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

- Tacitus

source: "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

topic: Peace, Freedom, War, Limited Government, State Government

They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.

- Ian Shoales

topic: Labyrinth, Legal System, Ethics, Legal Ethics

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

- Craig Reucassel

topic: Anarchy, Firsts, Anarchist, Law Students, Legal Ethics

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.744, e-artnow

topic: Law, Wish, Firsts, Solicitors, Legal Ethics

America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers .... tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine to avoid malpractice litigation ... these costs are not included in the 1% number above.

- Richard Lamm

topic: Doctors, Practice, Medicine, Legal Ethics, Malpractice

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Eye, Rocks, Self, Legal Ethics, Sisyphus