We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.
To be honest, in my five years as an electrician, I never got the license.
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
The Office of the Solicitor General has a deeply ingrained fundamental institutional culture that has stood the test of time for decades. I went because I wanted to do public service and do an appellate practice at the very highest levels I could.
As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.
Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have the same appeal, I suppose.
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.
Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.