Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Lawyers are very important people to me.
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
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.
And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
I think lawyers have a fidelity to the system itself that's always got to be with them, and indeed, most of the defense lawyers I know observe that.
Lawyers are for only what is right.
Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.
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.
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
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