Legal Resources Quotes

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.

There are some states where there are literally no lawyers on the state judiciary committee.

The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.

The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.

Had my parents not had visas, had my parents not had the resources to hire lawyers, I would be a DREAM Act kid, too.

If we are to fulfill the promise of this great Nation that everybody in our society has equal access to the law, obviously having the resources to have access to the law is extremely important.

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

I just want to apologize in advance that I don’t have enough subpoenas for all of you.