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“We are defined by how we use our power.”

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Gerry Spence is an American lawyer renowned for his defense skills in criminal trials. Born on January 8, 1929, he is a widely influential figure in the legal community. more

“I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.”

“The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.”

Powerful Enemy Democracy Kings Citizens Politician Drug Ultimate Murder Crooked Dealer Impunity Drug Dealers Crooked Politicians

Author:Gerry Spence

“I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance.”

Ambulance Chasers

Author:Melvin Belli

“A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.”

Facts Depends Percent Performances Responsible Lawyer Outcomes Courtroom

Author:Melvin Belli

“I had headaches for over 30 years until I tried chiropractic. They have completely disappeared.”

Years Headache Chiropractic

Author:Melvin Belli

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