Law School Quotes

Law School Quote of the day

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.

I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono!

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school.

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I worked my way through law school.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.