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9780762410637

The New Lawyer's Wit and Wisdom: Quotations on the Legal Profession, in Brief

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  • ISBN13:

    9780762410637

  • ISBN10:

    0762410639

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-08-05
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group

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Summary

Attorneys are rarely at a loss for words -- and here's another volume of them that's sure to please any member of the legal profession. A revised and expanded edition of our originalLawyer's Wit and Wisdom,this handsome, giftworthy book boasts more than 125 new quotations and twenty new anecdotes. Sources include such legal eagles as Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Marcia Clark, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Martin Luther King. For comic relief, editors have included a few pungent notions from Richard Fish, fictional attorney on the television showAlly McBeel,as well as other wise observers of the courtroom scene.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9(1)
Introduction 10(3)
The People
13(105)
The Law
15(23)
Lawyers
38(27)
Clients
65(12)
Law Firms
77(5)
Judges
82(16)
Juries
98(11)
Witnesses
109(4)
The Supreme Court
113(5)
Codes of Conduct
118(62)
Ethics
121(9)
Government
130(7)
Law School
137(6)
Obeying the Law
143(10)
Justice
153(20)
Injustice
173(7)
The Wheels of Justice
180(26)
Litigation
183(9)
The Trial
192(8)
The Verdict
200(6)
Closing Arguments
206(68)
The Profession
209(13)
Legal Fees
222(7)
Courtroom Performance
229(9)
The System
238(18)
On Reform
256(9)
Advice to Lawyers
265(9)
Index of Names 274

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