Quotes

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.


Gerald F. Lieberman

One in two lawyers is always wrong (Quotes)

"One in two lawyers is always wrong--and they're  rich.  What they can't be is incompetent.  So don't stress if you are wrong."


Professor Peter Jan Honisberg, University of San Francisco School of Law

A lawyer's role (what it should be)

Lawyers far too often lose sight of what their practice is intended to be.  Justice Frankfurter once described what a lawyer’s role should be and what that requires. 

It is a fair characterization of the lawyer's responsibility in our society that he stands ‘as a shield,’ to quote Devlin, J., in defense of right and to ward off wrong. From a profession charged with such responsibilities there must be exacted those qualities of truth-speaking, of a high sense of honor, of granite discretion, of the strictest observance of fiduciary responsibility, that have, throughout the centuries, been compendiously described as ‘moral character.’

–Schware v. Board of Bar Exam. of State of N.M. (1957) 353 U.S. 232, 247 (Concurrence)

Judge Learned Hand in Griswold

Judge Learned Hand had a way with words.  (Yes, that is his real name.)  
The following is an excerpt from Griswold:

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.”