Legal Acumen Quotes

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work.

A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously.

When I was at the Justice Department, there were these people who I called legal Houdinis, who - they would find any law; they would find a loophole and a way around it and often very tendentious and not true, and, you know, these are people who didn't respect the rule of law. But, you know, those people were there.

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

Lawyers tend to be bright people. They tend to be-much more than many journalists I've encountered-sticklers for detail and accuracy, and they have a logical way of arguing.

Never underestimate the creativity of the American legal profession.

I'm clearly not a major legal genius.

There is no better lawyer than Cristiano Ronaldo.

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.

'Competent counsel' ought to require more than a human being with a law license and a pulse.

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Justice Scalia and I served together on the D.C. Circuit. So his votes are not surprising to me. What I like about him is that he's very funny and very smart.

I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.