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A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.
Henry Brougham
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
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It's okay. I'm used to the callous attitude mortals have towards vampires. I'm used to wandering the earth - reviled, hunted, hated. That's why I became a lawyer.
Alan Decker, She Wolf of London
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Frankly I think if the Devil himself were to walk this earth, he'd need representation.
Jilly Kitzinger, Torchwood: Miracle Day
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Look for the blood in the water,

read your Thomas Hobbes,

only spineless snobs

will quarrel with the morally dubious jobs.

Yes, blood in the water;

your scruples are a flaw.

You're nothing until

the thrill of the kill

becomes your only law!
Prof. Callahan, Legally Blonde the Musical
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"Going gets tough, you don't want a criminal lawyer. You want a criminal lawyer, know what I mean?"
Jesse on Saul Goodman, Breaking Bad.
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"What do lawyers and sperm have in common? One in fifty million have a chance to become a human being."
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"What were you thinking?! People could have died! Before billable services were rendered!"
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Holtz: "You said you work for the law."

Lilah Morgan: "No, I didn't. I said I'm a lawyer. I don't care about the law."
Angel, "Lullaby"
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"We've been leaving a trail of bodies, lately, and trails eventually lead somewhere. This... this needed to be handled quietly, within the confines of the law."

"So you hire a couple of back-door shysters? I know a hundred defense attorneys with more experience than Heckle and Jeckle."

"It's not their experience that matters! They just opened shop, and they're completely clean. Say that about any of the other hundred you know?"
Daredevil, "Rabbit in a Snowstorm"
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"lived in a matrix of crime and unethical conduct,""derived a significant part of his income from illegal or unethical schemes and conspiracies," and thrived "cheek by jowl with so many men of sharp practice and dim luster in business and politics"[]

-Nicolas Von Hoffman describing infamous attorney Roy Cohn