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[you'll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of the Constitution; a guardian of the oppressed; an advocate for your client's principles. Then after you practice for six months you realize you were nothing but hired guns. Mouthpieces for sale to the highest bidder, available to anybody, any crook, any sleazebag with enough money to pay your outrageous fees. Nothing shocks you. It's supposed to be an honorable profession, but you'll meet so many crooked lawyers you'll want to quit and find an honest job. Yeah Mitch, you'll get cynical. And it's sad, really.
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legal
sad-truth
profession
law
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John Grisham |
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Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.
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legal
ethics
moral
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Carl Hiaasen |
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Reasonable doubt trumps everything.
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reason
legal
reasonable-doubt
trump
lawyer
rationality
logic
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Rebecca McNutt |
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It's not some romanticized Atticus Finch-type picnic. You'd probably love it, the whole risk of it all, but it's not without a price. Out there in this city when you pass the bar, it's all broken dreams and out-of-reach stars. You have to be brilliant, and you have to throw away your social life, your hobbies, but more than that you can't get your moral values mixed up with legal ethics. They'll both clash whenever you least expect it, and when you hit a crossroad you have to know when to go left or right or when to just blindly go forward... can you do that?
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morality
life
bar-exam
attorney
legal
legal-system
law-school
lawyer
law
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Rebecca McNutt |
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Someday I'll be a lawyer... someday I'll bring justice to people who need it. Lawyers are either legalized liars... or saviors of the truth.
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truth
jurisprudence
legal
courtroom
savior
lawyer
law
court
liar
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Rebecca McNutt |