I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All lawyers are going to have to - if we really want to attain civil justice - address the issue of how complicated we have made the laws: what we have done to ensnarl the American people in bureaucratic rules and regulations that make access to services or compliance with the law sometimes difficult, if not impossible.
You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously.
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
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.
One of the reasons I love the law is because I was raised in family - my grandfather was a lawyer, but more importantly, my grandmother was his secretary. And she taught me that lawyers were some of the most civil, most courteous - and in those days, most courtly - people that she knew.