The Quotable Lawyer - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1602399476 ISBN 13 : 9781602399471

Editeur : Skyhorse, 2010

Synopsis

The legal system and the lawyers who operate in (and around) it have influenced society and continue to do so today. In this age of the slip-and-fall, “false” advertising, and medical “malpractice,” it’s clear that the quest for justice has not always been easy—it’s also been hilarious, poignant, enlightening, and scandalous.

Words from renowned lawyers, not-so-renowned lawyers, judges, authors, politicians, philosophers, and preachers make up this collection of over five hundred memorable, bite-sized quotations about the lives of lawyers; the law; landmark cases; and quips, jokes, and humorous sayings.

Included in this diverse compendium are quotations by and about lawyers and law:

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”—U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.”—Clarence Darrow

“We do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws.”—G. K. Chesterton

“A lawyer will do anything to win a case—sometimes he will even tell the truth.”—Patrick Murray

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tony Lyons is a publishing and copyright attorney and the publisher of Skyhorse Publishing. He lives and works in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skyhorse
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1602399476
• ISBN 13: 9781602399471
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Éditeur: Lyons Tony
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas