“America is a war and you are on the other side. How's a black man ever going to get a fair trial with the enemy on the bench and in the jury box? My life in white hands? You Jake, that's how. You are my secret weapon because you are one of the bad guys.”

Samuel L. Jackson - Carl Lee Hailey

“A lawyer has a duty to his profession and to himself.”
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“- Ordell Robbie: This you and me talking, is this like a lawyer-client thing, and you can't repeat nothing I tell you?
- Max Cherry: You're not my client until you get busted and I bond you out.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Ordell Robbie
Robert Forster - Max Cherry

“- Jack Lawrence: He was lying to me, but he made me feel good.
- Carrie Lawrence: What do you mean he lied to you?
- Jack Lawrence: Lied right to my face. Big-time lie.
- Carrie Lawrence: How do you know?
- Jack Lawrence: I'm a lawyer. People lie to me all the time.”
Billy Crystal - Jack Lawrence
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Carrie Lawrence

“- Hammond: We're going to open next year. That is, if the lawyers don't kill me first. I don't care for lawyers, do you?
- Grant: We don't really know any.
- Hammond: Well I do, I'm afraid. There's a particular pebble in my shoe, represents my investors. Says that they insist on outside opinions.”
Richard Attenborough - Hammond
Sam Neill - Grant