Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters clients or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there all you need is the expertise and the information.

So I'm getting less chips paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?

It is curious that with my somewhat antinomian tendencies I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was and is before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

While there continues to be differences the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled where there was no legal state.

I have a book coming out in September for example where the plot concerns counterfeiting and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters for example I have to do a lot of research online.

I'm not a lawyer and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Drones can be a highly effective way of dealing with high-priority targets but they should not become the drug of choice for an administration that is afraid to use successful legal and safe tactics of the past.

We knew that if the photos of CIA officers conducting authorized EIT (enhanced interrogation techniques) ever got out the difference between a legal authorized necessary and safe program and the mindless actions of some MPs (military police) would be buried by the impact of the images.

In my book I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal necessary and saved lives.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them and he rendered his judgment wise or unwise on the merits.

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then of course to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

I guess music particularly the blues is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Understand that legal and illegal are political and often arbitrary categorizations use and abuse are medical or clinical distinctions.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did I would not use it.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

Supercookies are legal but I don't think they should be.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.