Trial Lawyers Quotes:

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, Anchors, Trials, Jury, Judge And Jury

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Real, Trying, Trials, Trial Lawyers

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

- Irving Kaufman

topic: Stronger, Doe, Trials, Trial Lawyers

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to unload their cargo, right up until the final moments of trial.

- David Berg

source: David Berg (2006). “The Trial Lawyer: What it Takes to Win”, p.12, American Bar Association

topic: Successful, Trials, Opponents, Trial Lawyers

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Thinking, Devil, Trials, Trial Lawyers

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

- Mario Cuomo

topic: Simple, People, Political, Evasion, Trial Lawyers

I have been shaped by the experiences of the people who are closest to me, by the things I've learned from [my wife] Martha, by my hopes and my concerns for my children, Philip and Laura, by the experiences of members of my family, who are getting older, by my sister's experiences as a trial lawyer in a profession that has traditionally been dominated by men.

- Samuel Alito

source: Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

topic: Children, Men, People, Laura, Philip

Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

- Dennis Hastert

topic: Judging, Trials, Matter, Trial Lawyers

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

- Ben Stein

source: The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

topic: Teacher, Law, California, Santa Cruz, Trial Lawyers

As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

- Ann Coulter

topic: Country, School, Long, Laughable, Trial Lawyers

We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

- Grover Norquist

source: "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

topic: Teacher, House, Trials, Redistricting, Teachers Unions

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

- Rick Perry

topic: Trials, Quitting, Lawyer, Trial Lawyers

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

- Joe Conason

topic: Cutting, Years, America, Trial Lawyers

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

- Scott Bakula

topic: Trials, Lawyer, Grew, Trial Lawyers

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

- Geraldine Ferraro

topic: Aggravation, Trials, Lawyer, Trial Lawyers

If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Men, Special, Trials, Special Interests, Trial Lawyers

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

- Orrin Hatch

topic: Trials, Pay, Lawyer, Employment Discrimination, Trial Lawyers

In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

- Bob Ney

topic: Years, Trials, Safe, Monetary, Food Industry

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Writing, Views, Trials, Trial Lawyers

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Book, Objectivity, Mistress, Crime Books, Trial Lawyers

This bill would allow an employee to bring a claim against an employer decades after the alleged initial act of discrimination occurred. Trial lawyers, you can be sure, are salivating at this very prospect.

- Buck McKeon

topic: Trials, Bills, Lawyer, Employment Discrimination, Trial Lawyers