Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

Lawyers exist to tell you everything that could possibly go wrong with anything you want to do. The correct way to interact with them is to say thank you very much, and then do it anyway. Actually no one told me that; I had to figure it out myself.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

The Judge has not organs to know and to deal with the text of the foreign law, and therefore requires the assistance of a foreign lawyer who knows how to interpret it.

I believe you keep a lawyer. I have always kept a lawyer, too, though I have never made anything out of him.

as a trained lawyer, what I try to do is use my legal skills to help organizers figure out how to wage campaigns against oppressive institutions. Sometimes that means reducing power for the police. Sometimes it means trying to close a jail or a prison.

To bring in a lawyer means a real peril to solution of the crime because, under our adversary system, he deems that his sole duty is to protect his client—guilty or innocent—and that, in such a capacity, he owes no duty whatever to help society solve its crime problem. Under this conception of criminal procedure, any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances.

You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.

A lawyer must be told things frankly; then it's up to us to muddle them up.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how something CAN'T be done

:Actually I can't, I need you to tell me which ones you object to.

The point is, your request for a lawyer comes about two hundred years too late to be meaningful. The verbalisms lag behind the facts. Nevertheless, you shall have a lawyer—or a lollipop, whichever you prefer, after I am through questioning you. If I were you, I’d take the lollipop. More nourishing.

Understanding what you can do is essential, understanding what you can’t do is pretty important too.