A Quote by Patrick Leahy

I'm an old trial lawyer.

Patrick Leahy

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Patrick Leahy
American - Politician
Born: March 31, 1940

I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

Omari Hardwick

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Vincent Bugliosi

An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer.

Evelle J. Younger

Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

Kamala Harris

I was a trial lawyer when I was elected to Congress.

Geraldine Ferraro

The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.

Sam Sheppard

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment.

Ann Coulter

For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

Vincent Bugliosi

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Jerome Frank

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

Irving Kaufman

I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

Mario Cuomo

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide.

Joe Jamail

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Jill Lepore

Now I am practicing as well as a criminal defense lawyer in handling appeals. The court of appeals appointed me to handle cases and although that's not trial work and I don't have to go to court, it kind of satisfies the need I have to practice still and I have transitioned into readiness not to be in trial anymore. It took a little while for me to get used to not doing it and I did miss it for a few years, but eventually I transferred into another life.