To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
I'm afraid I talk a lot too much perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician though I'm glad I am not any of these.
I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.
As a private lawyer I could bill $750 an hour but I don't.
To some lawyers all facts are created equal.
Unfortunately what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
The good lawyer is the great salesman.