Obviously Im A Lawyer; I

Obviously Im A Lawyer; I Like To Have Cases.

It Is Easy To Be Accurate If You Have The Freedom To Be Complicated, And It Is Very Easy To Be Simple If You Have The Freedom To Shade The Truth. What's Hard Is To Be Simple And Very Accurate, And That Takes Work To Figure Out What Are The Simple Truths That Are Going To Sustain Your Case.

I Was A Paper Boy, Beginning The Summer Between My Fourth-grade And Fifth-grade Years.

But I'd Say My Best Boss Was Tom Barr, Who Was A Partner At Cravath, Swain & Moore In The 1960s. It's Because I Learned So Much From Him.

You Never Know When You Lose A Case Whether It Was Because The Facts Were Against You, Or Because The Judges Had Already Made Up Their Minds, Or If You Could Have Done Something Differently.