I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

Joe Jamail

Categorized in : Never Fast Thinking People

Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

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For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.

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It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

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I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.

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If you are not emotionally involved, your client is not getting your best effort.

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When I walk into a courtroom, I feel like I'm home.

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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.

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Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

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For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.

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It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

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I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.

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We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

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The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

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There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.

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The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

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I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

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I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.

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You had to have a unanimous jury verdict, and one percent of contributory negligence barred all recovery. It was so satisfying to realize I could do it. And I'll tell you what motivated me: competitiveness. I was betting on me. That's what a contingent-fee lawyer does.

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I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.

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When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

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