The legal system and the lawyers who operate in (and around) it have influenced society and continue to do so today. In this age of the slip-and-fall, "false" advertising, and medical "malpractice," it's clear that the quest for justice has not always been easy--it's also been hilarious, poignant, enlightening, and scandalous.

Words from renowned lawyers, not-so-renowned lawyers, judges, authors, politicians, philosophers, and preachers make up this collection of over five hundred memorable, bite-sized quotations about the lives of lawyers; the law; landmark cases; and quips, jokes, and humorous sayings.

Included in this diverse compendium are quotations by and about lawyers and law:

"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."--Clarence Darrow

"We do not get good laws to restrain bad people. We get good people to restrain bad laws."--G. K. Chesterton

"A lawyer will do anything to win a case--sometimes he will even tell the truth."--Patrick Murray