“The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.”
Dissenting, DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 342 (1974)
Judicial opinions
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Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), 2015
“If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.”
Of Laws.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
“I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.”
[Tom, Morganthau, Trusting 'in the Lord and a Good Lawyer.', Newsweek, 1986-12-08, 46-47]
Regarding the Iran-Contra affair.
1997 speech at University of Virginia Law School, as quoted in Marc Galanter, Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture (2006), p. 3.
Books, articles, and speeches
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.”
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 56
“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.”
Letter to Samuel Rogers (December 21, 1833)
“There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart.”
Source: How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995), Ch. 7 : The Power of Words, p. 104
Context: There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.