Lawyers quotes

- Matt Murdock: Define "better". Huh? What would be a "better" client?
- Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson: "Better" means "rich and guilty", okay? Remember when they taught us in law school how to create a moral vacuum so that you can represent people who aren't all necessarily innocent?
Ben Affleck - Matt Murdock
Jon Favreau - Franklin 'Foggy' Nelson

“- Jason Kelly: Being a corporate lawyer, you know, it's got its upsides.
- Dick Kelly: You know what I'd rather do?
- Jason Kelly: What?
- Dick Kelly: I'd rather let Queen Latifah shit in my mouth from a fucking hot air balloon.”
Zac Efron - Jason Kelly
Robert De Niro - Dick Kelly

“Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week.”
David Steinberg

“- Louden Trott: You're a criminal, I'm a tax attorney! I'll be alright here, I'm sure somebody'll call the cops.
- Nikki Finn: They are the cops!
- Louden Trott: Maybe if I just explain...
- Nikki Finn: Explain what, Trott? That we were buyin' four stolen semi-automatic weapons on your gold card?
- Louden Trott: Ok!”

Griffin Dunne - Loudon Trott
Madonna - Nikki Finn

“- 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

“Well listen, I understand attorney-client privilege. I understand all the legal gamesmanship and I understand that's how you make your living, but I'm talking to you about something else, the security of your country.”
Scott Shepherd - Hoffman

“I know you know a lot of people, and with a good lawyer you'll get out of jail in a few years. And then I'll come for you. I'll find you, and we both know what's gonna happen.”

Liam Neeson - Bryan Mills

“- Doug McKenzie: Lawyers are for sucks.
- Bailiff: Hey, McKenzie brothers. Your lawyer is here.”
Dave Thomas - Doug McKenzie
Robert Windsor - Bailiff

- Alan Dershowitz: Reminds me of my Hitler dream. You know, Hitler calls up, he's alive... needs a lawyer. I say, "Sure, come on over". Then I have to decide: do I take the case, or do I kill him?
- Elon Dershowitz: You? No question.
- Alan Dershowitz: I would take the case.
- Elon Dershowitz: Then kill him.
Ron Silver - Alan Dershowitz
Stephen Mailer - Elon Dershowitz

“- Dr. Bill Capa: Do I need a lawyer?
- Hector Martinez: You're in L.A. Everybody needs a lawyer.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa
Rubén Blades - Martinez

“- Conan O'Brien: Remember, if the oxygen mask comes down, put it on the lawyer first. Remember.
- Arthur Tressler: Oh, yes. I always do. It's the lawyer first, then myself, and then the children.”
Conan O'Brien - Himself
Sir Michael Caine - Arthur Tressler

“If we are ever to have law and order in the West, the first thing we gotta do is take out all the lawyers and shoot 'em down like dogs.”

Henry Hull - Maj. Rufus Cobb

“- Mitch McDeere: What led you to law school?
- Avery Tolar: It's so far back I don't think I can remember.
- Mitch McDeere: Sure you can, Counsellor.
- Avery Tolar: I used to caddy for lawyers and their wives on summer weekends. I looked at those long tan legs and just knew I had to be a lawyer. The wives had long tan legs, too.”
Tom Cruise - Mitch McDeere
Gene Hackman - Avery Tolar

“- Samantha: They've denied you the same rights as everybody else, just because you're different.
- Ted: Can you get me my life back?”
Amanda Seyfried - Samantha
Seth MacFarlane - Ted

“- Abrams: The hardest thing for a public defender is whether or not you are cheap. He's gonna make it, dem's the difference. Now you did, every time.
- Ben: I'm a little bit over my head.”
Al Pacino - Charles Abrams
Josh Duhamel - Ben Cahill

“- Doc Morris: Wow, this isn't an act, is it? You really aren't a pleasant person.
- Hank Palmer: Right now? I'm a summer breeze. Once I subpoena you, get you on the stand and extract the truth from your ass like tree sap then you'll realize in that moment, correct, I'm not a pleasant person.”
Denis O'Hare - Doc Morris
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“You're like an energy vampire. You suck the life out of people and take the fun out of being a lawyer.”

Steve Martin - Roger Cobb

“I told you how to avoid divorce lawyers. You get married, and you stay married.”
Cedric the Entertainer - Lamar

“Look at it today: right here in Liberty we got hundreds of lawyers, thousands of 'em, as far as the eye can see: nothing but lawyers!”

Henry Hull - Maj. Rufus Cobb

“You're an attorney. Be proud. You job is to find justice no matter how well she may hide herself from you.”

Donald Sutherland - Lucien Wilbanks

“This is a three billion dollar class action lawsuit. In the morning, I have to call my board. I have to tell them that the architect of our defense was arrested for running naked in the street. What sickness is he talking about?”
Tilda Swinton - Karen Crowder

“- Effie Schneider (Nancy Drew's maid): I didn't know you wanted to be a lawyer.
- Nancy Drew: Oh yes, I think every intelligent woman should have a career.”
Renie Riano - Effie Schneider (Nancy Drew's maid)
Bonita Granville - Nancy Drew

“Lawsuits are war, it's as simple as that ad they begin the same way the declaration: the compliant, when you're a small firm and their a big one steep in history and wealth as they always are, with their Persian carpets on the floor and their Harvard diplomas hanging on the wall, it's easy to be intimidated, don't be, that's what they want,...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Travolta - Jan Schlichtmann

“People ain't hating nowadays like they used to. They gettin' soft. I got to admit that I like a man that hauls off and hates good and hard.”

Henry Hull - Maj. Rufus Cobb

“- Billy Hayes: What about you? What are you in for?
- Erich: Hashish. 90% of the foreigners here are in for hashish or drug related charges from smuggling to posession. My advice is you get yourself a very good lawyer and try to argue down the charge you face. If they make it posession, the sentance is lighter.”
Brad Davis - Billy Hayes
Norbert Weisser - Erich