Joe Jamail Quotes
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I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.
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By not trying the small cases, the lawyers don't get the courtroom experience. So when the huge, bet-the-company cases come along, there are only a handful of trial lawyers who can handle it. That's why these big corporations still call us old-timers every day.
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It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.
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I can't describe the feeling I got the first time I won a jury award for an injured person.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.
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When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.
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That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.
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I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.
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I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.
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The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
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I didn't do too well until my second year, when I realized that there were no right or wrong answers and that my professors were interested only in how well I could develop an argument.
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I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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I think I'm doing some good. Obviously, I don't need any more money.
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Medical research is needed, and I just saw there was a need for help that the government - state or federal - was not spending the taxpayers' money on helping people get through college.
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I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?
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There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
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I don't think I'm a good ol' boy. Honestly, the last thing I am is a redneck. I like silk sheets, fancy cars, beautiful women, good whiskey.
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I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
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It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.
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Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
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The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
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For every dollar we have given to athletics, we have given about 27 to higher education or medical research.