One of the challenges for lawyers can be explaining, first of all, what the legal issue is and, second, its significance. And both of those are important.
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The trouble with law is lawyers.
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.
Lawyers are for only what is right.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
Lawyers are very important people to me.
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.
Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.
What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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