Norm Crosby

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

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

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.