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The way it's written right now, the lawyers tell us it's essentially useless. ... Why pass a bill that doesn't do what you want it to do?

There can be no fair trial without providing security for witnesses, judges and lawyers on an equal footing. No trial can take place in such conditions.

You can learn from them, you can see what is bothering people. ... The jokes are a screen on which people project their feelings about lawyers and the law.

We've had a very nice experience with diversity overall here in Munster. This has been a very professional community over the years with doctors, lawyers and professional people from all over the world, and their children have become part of our school districts in Northwest Indiana.

Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they couldn't get training in the South.

Both his family and his lawyers are overjoyed that he is being released immediately and will be at home soon.

A court must be set up on the advice of national and international lawyers who are currently conducting their work, ... I am one among many people who support an investigation into the genocidal regime of Pol Pot, which must be punished.

People entered into these deals often at the behest of lawyers and accountants peddling flaky tax products, ... We're offering taxpayers a quick, quiet and cost-effective way to put these deals behind them.

Rather than viewing a contract simply as documenting a deal for the future, smart businesses use it as a source of information. Lawyers can set up incentives so that payments only get made if certain benchmarks are met.

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:""No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!""So the lawyers applied For injunction. ""Denied,"" Said the Judge: ""the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."" --Arpad Singiny

First he says he wants to die a martyr and now he is begging the jury to spare his life and telling the panel that his dedicated lawyers are out to get him. It doesn't add up and perhaps that's exactly what he has in mind.

Fifty years ago in America, law schools had virtually no women students or professors, and their attitude then is much like that in the film industry today. The prevailing opinion was that women don't want to be lawyers and, anyway, they wouldn't be good at it; they're too emotional. But there was a movement that forced schools to change, and nobody today says women aren't capable lawyers. We're saying the same thing. Let women in, we'll show you we can do it.

Finally, one of the lawyers said, 'Does anyone else have any other extenuating circumstances?' ... I raised my hand, and everyone in the group started laughing. Can you imagine if they told you I couldn't be here because I have jury duty? No one would have believed me.

Two hundred seventy dollars was the total cost. Most lawyers charge that for an hour. At the time, we just wanted to get this over with, move on with our lives, and not get everything dragged out with lawyers.

But I will continue my battle for liberty in other ways, with he help of the lawyers who assist me.

Ross was far advanced beyond what you get with most lawyers with two years of experience. He's a harder legal worker than any legal attorney that I've ever worked with.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it

The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

Once the lawyers have a chance to wordsmith it, they will take it to their councils for a vote. I don't think there will be a need for us to get back together again.

So this is a case where Padilla loses the round in court but actually gains some measure of freedom. Padilla wins by losing. He gets out of military custody now and presumably into an environment in some jail somewhere where he will have more complete access to his lawyers and a better chance not just to see the allegations against him but to prepare his own defense.

Defense lawyers have said they will boycott the next court hearing scheduled for November 28. The High Tribunal is the only one able to rule on this, and is free to appoint other lawyers or choose any other solution.

As important as he is to the club on the field, to the organization, to this community, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting where effectively we're paying lawyers to tell independent arbitrators how little we think of Mark. We wanted to avoid that. He shared that sentiment with us. It's a mutually beneficial deal.

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

That's not something the lawyers and police have to worry about. That's something the council will have to handle.

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

This has been a victory of mob rule. Never before have I seen such absolutely incredible and unprofessional behavior from lawyers urging this disruption. They used these children as pawns.

They're wrong. It's based on turnout, not total registered voters. Their lawyers are going to say it's not this, it's that; our lawyers will disagree. And we believe, if anyone takes it to court, our lawyers would prevail.

Our concerns would lie in two areas. One, the lack of communication with an athlete who ultimately will be affected by the outcome of an arbitration, and two, lawyers arguing over medals 14 months after the games are concluded is not good for the Olympic movement.

Fear, hype and misinformation over mold in 2001 and 2002 created an insurance crisis in Texas that we're still paying for today. Our court system was flooded by questionable lawsuits driven by personal injury lawyers who preyed on people's health fears, despite the lack of any scientific evidence.

Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.

Even a year ago I was talking about going to law school. Because the lawyers I know get to meet a lot of different people.

The way the bill was gutted in committee today means achieving significant savings is far less likely. With the changes in this bill, it does a lot more to protect the interests of personal injury lawyers and a lot less to protect the interest of small businesses and injured workers.

The university lawyers have a form they've made up,

This field has been plowed. This strikes me as not only old news, but very old news ... The only difference seems to be that the lawyers won the right to publicize it.

This could have a chilling effect on the willingness of competent lawyers to vigorously defend the accused and that could have a fatal effect on the fairness and effectiveness of the trial.

Your good lawyers realize that a good settlement is worth more than a good (jury) judgment. They don't appeal the settlement, and you get it quicker. If you can get just as much in six months with mediation as you're going to get in two years with a two- or three-week trial, you'd be foolish not to mediate the case.

You need the lawyers to understand what's dangerous and what's not; you need the IT people to know what's feasible and what's not; and you need a smattering of people from the rest of the company to know what the culture is.

You remind me of lawyers who appear in my courtroom,

This is the first time we have filed a lawsuit against American companies in an American court, where the lawyers for the plaintiff and the defendant will also be Americans. But VAVA is determined to pursue the case until justice is done.

This is a pattern of lawyers and others in the White House busting their backs to do the best work they can to be try to be responsive,

This is probably the most important phase of jury selection, and jury selection may be the most important phase of the trial, ... This will be the chance for lawyers to see whether these are jurors with an agenda.

I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please

I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.

If Miss Stewart has been truthful, as her lawyers insist, then why won't she tell her story to us under oath?

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor, ... There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way -- I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

In the upcoming weeks, the lawyers for these two students are going to be able to provide objective evidence that demonstrates they were not capable of committing any sexual offense. This will include receipts and other records demonstrating that they weren't present at the house at the time when the assault was allegedly taking place.

Slash, Axl, Duff, Izzy and I are all brothers. Axl and his lawyers cannot take away what we had. As long as we are alive, we have it. We are brothers and what do brothers do? We fight. I may not like them all the time, but I will always love them.

I insist on my position to allow the participation of these two lawyers to avoid risking a mistrial.

I'm going to ask the lawyers if we can call each gallon a violation. Hey, when you price by the gallon ...

I'm fairly certain his lawyers are keeping that in the back of their mind.

It's rather damning to their current view that they didn't need legislation. Clearly the lawyers at the Justice Department, or some of them, felt that legislation was needed to allow the government to do what it was doing.

I want to remind the people in Port Arthur and Southeast Texas that as lawmakers, we are just as frustrated as they are about the special session. But I do think we have made substantial progress since the regular session.

It's time for the Chinese government to give a full account of what has happened to these five men, including any charges against them. Independent doctors and lawyers should be allowed to meet with them to ascertain their condition.

It's probably one of those nuanced things that will take lawyers a little time to sort out.

It's probably within the range of things that UAW and GM lawyers anticipated and could explain why they were working towards an April settlement rather than an earlier one.

It's personal and I'm not a very confrontational person, I don't like that kind of thing in my life. It's still going on, and probably will go on into next year. I finally started playing better when I realized I had two choices -- either continue to dwell on it or let the lawyers take care of it and let me go play golf. It was kind of weird.

I want these darn pictures back and the lawyers to go away.

It's definitely out there. There are incompetent and even dishonest immigration lawyers working all over.

The U.S. is maintaining an archipelago of prisons around the world, many of them secret prisons, into which people are being literally disappeared, held in indefinite, incommunicado detention without access to lawyers or a judicial system or to their families,

It's hard for lawyers to disagree with judges. With all respect to the judge(s), we disagree with the idea that the county assessor is required to follow the procedures under the Nevada Administrative Procedures Act Chapter 233b.

It works very well, (but) it will seem strange to American eyes. No lawyers doing battle with each other, no O.J.-type trial dramatics.

It will at least preclude lawyers like me from saying they've resolved to never settle any,

I guess she went to a different law school than the rest of the lawyers in America. People don't just throw that term about.

Citizens are taking time to participate. That's the sunshine that works. Lawmakers do hear the voice of the people if they speak loudly enough.

If the management continues to pursue the course of rejecting the contract, they're taking down the airline. Our lawyers tell us we can strike, we prepared for a strike, we will strike.

I know he would never hurt anybody unless he was protecting Tony. But I'm thankful that his life's saved. I'm thankful for his lawyers that he had. They've been like family to us.

If you wanted to have a discussion about a transaction, you had to have lawyers present. I miss that contact with all the innovation leaders.

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.

Because of S-Ox, as soon as they sniff anything, boards have lawyers and accountants reviewing worldwide operations.

Homeowner flood insurance is woefully inadequate in most cases. There's a lot of talk about lawyers bringing class actions for homeowners in the entire gulf coast that were devastated by high water -- I'll file one myself if I have to.

He's a private eye! He goes after people and finds out things about them, and it seems that lawyers in Hollywood have been using him to get information. The question is whether they knew how he got it.

These people have no idea what to do without lawyers telling them what to do. They don't know what the hell they're doing. They're not lawyers.

They will not be making a determination on the lawfulness on the NSA program, but rather will determine whether the department's lawyers complied with their professional obligations in connection with examining this program.

They weren't providing him with the forms he needed to get the public defender, and they told him about a case where another convicted killer got the death penalty because his lawyers told him not to talk. That constitutes a threat.

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

The Bush administration did not seek a broad debate on whether commander-in-chief powers can trump international conventions and domestic statutes in our struggle against terrorism. They could have separated the big question from classified details to operations and had an open debate. Instead, an inner circle of lawyers and advisers worked around the dissenters in the administration and one-upped each other with extreme arguments.

The first thing that happens is that lawyers get together and say we're not going to offer them services to protect their identity because that implies we've accepted liability. Most of the legislation is more grandstanding. The lawmakers can say they've done something -- they put legislation in place. But with all the corporate lobbyist groups, the odds of us getting true notification and prevention are pretty small.

The door is still open to a solution, ... If her lawyers come in at the eleventh hour and satisfy our conditions, the plan could change.

The doctors named the tests and procedures she should have done. The lawyers advised her about tax and estate planning. The artists recommended exhibits to see or specific masterpieces to view. The professors encouraged her to read specific books, while the financial professionals scribbled stock tips on napkins and told her how to restructure her portfolio.

The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).

The union is delighted. The new CBA is a big leap forward for the players and means a fairer system for all. It also means seven more years of labor peace. Fans can now forget about the lawyers and owners and enjoy football.

A lot of lawyers are going to be arguing over this. I think what we all would like to see is for the Legislature to meet and pass a comprehensive statute that addresses all these issues, and not an order that was written on an emergency basis.

A lot of lawyers are going to throw their hands up and ask, 'How do we make money from this? The answer is: 'Maybe they don't.

The first thing his lawyers will do now is to fight to get him out of detention and on bail.

The jurors are crying, our clients are crying and the lawyers are trying to keep from crying.

This is all about runaway litigation and trial lawyers forcing businesses to make unfortunate decisions for fear of lawsuits.

These groups are basically a family of people that have been traditionally supporters of, or closely aligned with, trial lawyers nationally and in Illinois.

These kids right here, they're going to be mayors and governors and lawyers and artists and social workers and actors. And you're going to reach for the stars, right? You're going to follow your dreams, right?

These are lawyers who don't want to be educated on how important security has become, but I just persist in getting out our policy and reminding them of it,

For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking them ... but at the same time, for the larger population, there is a kind of disappointment with law. There was a sense that lawyers were going to bring remedies and justice -- and (they don't), so everybody ends up having a grievance about lawyers.

It's no surprise that trial lawyers in the Senate who are lining their own pockets on the backs of South Carolina's businesses would want to delay much-needed reform of a broken workers' compensation system.

It's an opportunity for citizens who care about issues to communicate with lawmakers about what's happening in their communities. Without that input, lawmakers might not be able to make informed decisions.

It's a real serious problem. There are lawyers out there who are advertising and chasing cases. Every once in a while you'll see a lawyer get in trouble for doing that. But it's not enough.

As you know, lawyers sometimes need to run to the courthouse on short notice. It's much easier to run a couple of blocks than to jump in a car.

Everyone knew that the lawyers had to do their job and review these things carefully, and that's what we've done.

This move is to put the defense team on a proper legal foundation and when the family appoints lawyers it then knows who is whom.

It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts before them.

It seems like the lawyers are trying to get us to do their work. I don't know if they have exhausted every other source to get that information.

There's absolutely no reason why the state legislature can't regulate attorneys fees. For one, judges are lawyers too. And surely the notion cannot be that the branch that's most responsive to the public shouldn't take the lead in a matter like this.