legal profession quotes

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.