Judge Mills Lane

Well, I - all cases to me have interest. Every case is important to somebody, the people litigating that case. But the most difficult case for me is the case where one person says a, the other person says b, and you just don't know for certain who is not telling you the truth.

American Celebrity

Robert Shapiro

I think that one of the motivating factors was in my last year of law school: we had a competition, and I won the competition; it was judged by several of the federal judges at the time. I got a tremendous amount of encouragement to pursue litigation from them at the time.

American Lawyer

Robin S. Sharma

I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.

Canadian Lawyer

Ma Jun

The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

Chinese Environmentalist

Renata Adler

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

Italian Journalist

Scott Pruitt

What I've said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn't regulate through litigation.

American Politician

Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

American President

Felix Frankfurter

Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.

American Judge

Gore Vidal

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

American Novelist

Jon Cryer

American Actor

Used when discussing actions within the formal environment of a court.

Courtroom Setting

Involves resolving disagreements through the legal system, not casually.

Legal Disputes

Litigating is a serious, often time-consuming and costly, step in disputes.

Serious Conflicts

Points to a narrowed down, exact issue or item being brought into lawsuits.

Specific Issues

Encompasses various legal actions, like filing lawsuits, beyond court trials.

Not Just Court

Can be used to intimidate or warn before actual legal action is taken.

Potential Threat

 in about to be evicted because he hasn't paid his rent but he hasn't paid his rent of course because he's paying for his HIV medication and just can't afford both we had moms who had come in daughter has asthma wakes up covered in cockroaches every morning and one of our litigation strategies was actually to

What if our healthcare...

 to die in prison. We have life imprisonment without parole for kids in this country. And we're actually doing some litigation. The only country in the world. I represent people on death row. It's interesting, this question of the death penalty. In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question

Bryan Stevenson: We need...

 known as a state habeas corpus appeal. The third chapter is an even more complicated legal proceeding known as a federal habeas corpus proceeding. And the fourth chapter is one where a variety of things can happen. The lawyers might file a clemency petition, they might initiate even more complex litigation,

Lessons from death row...

 about to be evicted because he hasn't paid his rent. But he hasn't paid his rent, of course, because he's paying for his HIV medication and just can't afford both. We had moms who would come in, daughter has asthma, wakes up covered in cockroaches every morning. And one of our litigation strategies

Rebecca Onie: What if...

 parole for kids in this country and we're actually doing some litigation only country in the world I resent people on death row it's interesting this question of the death penalty in many ways we've been taught to think that the real question is do people deserve to die for the crimes they've

We need to talk about an...

 everybody's probably are something but you will not see a hard-working young man we have to catch fish so that we can pay our bills so that we can take care of the people that we love so it's very important that we start catching fish right away litigate listen we got

Meet the Reels of...

 but we had to then begin to get down to the nuts and bolts of how you litigate that kind of case. So one of the first things we needed to do was figure out what a cause of action was, a legal cause of action. And a legal cause of action is a vehicle that lawyers use

Chimps have feelings and...

 where we discussed trends in climate litigation around the world. He then organized training sessions for all of those specialist environment court judges. Now more such judges have been appointed in the meantime, and as of today,

Why Is China Appointing...

 and what justness means to me is using laws for their intended purpose, which is to protect. The role of laws is to protect. So as a result, I decided to open up a private practice, and I became the first foreigner to litigate

Kimberley Motley: How I...

 environment, energy, litigation, mergers, all of these are complicated problems that are predictable, that this sort of technology can be applied to. And the reason that being able to predict those things is important,

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