The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
John GrishamTag: lawyering
There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
John GrishamTag: truth
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.
John GrishamTag: legal-education
He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
John GrishamTag: lawyering
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.
John GrishamTag: legal-education
It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the yellow pages, and billboards, and placards on city buses, and telephone solicitation. You hold your nose, ignore the stench of what you're doing, ignore the snubs and snobbery of big-firm lawyers, because it takes only one.
John GrishamTag: barratry
A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.
John GrishamTag: spousal-abuse
Some people have more guts than brains.
John GrishamTag: courage
I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.
John GrishamTag: righteousness
Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
John GrishamTag: history
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