It's fine to get paid and get a big verdict, but to go out and represent people, sometimes in unglamorous ways, is really what lawyering is all about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being a trial lawyer sounds like glamorous work, but most of your time is spent pushing paper and arguing.
People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.
Lawyers are for only what is right.
Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
Lawyers are very important people to me.
It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.
Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.