„Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.“
— Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer 1803 - 1857
Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.“
— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, The Queen v. Bishop of London (1889), L. R. 23 Q. B. 452.
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Yet much of this book has been a criticism of lawyers, or the role lawyers have played in this debate. The law speaks to ideals, but it is my view that our profession has become too attuned to the client. And in a world where the rich clients have one strong view, the unwillingness of the profession to question or counter that one strong view queers the law.
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