McCloskey Barristers & Solicitors

Literary Tributes to the Legal Profession

"If the law supposes that, the law is a ass--a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience--by experience."

~ Mr. Bumble in Dickens' Oliver Twist

"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters."

~ John Keats

"People who use lawyers are not really people you would want to hang around with."

~  Deborah Ross

"99% of lawyers give all the rest a bad name."

~ Anonymous

"How many lawyer jokes are there? One. The rest are true stories."

~  Thomas Shubnell

"What do you call a lawyer gone bad? Senator."

~ Marvin Lebman