Kapil Sibal Quotes

I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

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've always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. He's retired now. My brother is a lawyer. It's always been easy, the legalese.

I went to law school after college.

I was quite convinced that I didn't want to be a lawyer. But I felt that law school would be a useful way to understand public policy and to understand business in this environment.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.

Long-term I would love to go to law school.

The advice I give is that, tempting as it is, getting the training you can get from law firm experience is really invaluable. It teaches you not just what you know but what you don't.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

When I became a lawyer, no one asked me if I had spent some time in special ed. All they wanted was a good lawyer.

I will always love the law; no matter what, I'll always find ways to participate in the law.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

I believe having judges with real world, frontline experience as a prosecutor is a good thing.

If you're interested in the job and in the kind of work that's done, you have to have an interest in who's going to fill your shoes.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn't have time to do.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

Being a lawyer, it's like holding a key card to a parallel dimension of rule sets in the world, and it's lovely to make sure that key continues to work and to continue to brush up on the law every so often.