“This is not an honorable person. Certainly, there is no straightforward litmus test to be part of the bar, but certainly being a truthful person is the fundamental basis of being a lawyer. She has never been truthful in her life.”
Lawyer Thom McNamee of East Dundee, IL, on the pending application of a woman formerly known as Nadine Walter to be admitted to the Florida bar;
now in a witness protection program, she was a chief witness in the trial of her then-boyfriend for the 1987 murder of McNamee's twin brother Tim outside his Carpentersville law office
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“I just don't see how enforcement by Eliot Spitzer or trial lawyers in Beaumont, Texas, will yield better results.”
Michael S. Greve of the American Enterprise Institute
supporting “silent tort reform” in which federal agencies
are increasingly pre-empting consumer protection
activities of state courts and attorneys general
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“If Roberts were able to create unanimity in that case (
House v. Bell), then I would think he really has accomplished something very dramatic.”
Appellate litigator Edward Lazarus on Chief Justice
John Roberts's stated preference for broad agreement
on narrow grounds; House, to be decided this month,