So what do the trial lawyers and judges really think? here are a few of the quotes from some famous lawyers and judges.

Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court Justice

The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.

F. Lee Bailey

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they’re wrong. usually they’re not smarter.

Chief Justice Warren Burger

ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day … these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession.

Fred Rodell, Professor of Law, Yale University

It is lawyers who run our civilization for us - our governments, our businesses, our private lives… We cannot buy a home or rent an apartment, we cannot get married or try to get divorced, we cannot leave our property to our children without calling on the lawyers to guide us. To guide us, incidentally, through a maze of confusing gestures and formalities that lawyers have created… The legal trade, in short, is nothing but a high-class racket.

Clarence Darrow

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Roy Cohn

I don’t want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

Felix Frankfurter

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Adlai E. Stevenson

In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.

Warren E. Burger

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Law Professor Joseph G. Allegretti

I defended about one hundred forty people for murder in this country and I think in all of the cases I received just one Christmas card from all of these defendants.

Judge Irving Kaufman

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.