Gerry Spence
Gerry Spence
Gerald Leonard "Gerry" Spenceis a semi-retired American trial lawyer. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. As of 2014, Spence has never lost a criminal case either as a prosecutor or a defense attorney. He has not lost a civil case since 1969...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth8 January 1929
CityLaramie, WY
CountryUnited States of America
justice anomalies splits
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.
should discarded
Words that do not create images should be discarded.
lying thinking color
Our prejudices :;we all have them are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.
race neighbor communicate
We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.
children goal definitions
To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.
death adventure rope
I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.
dance moving people
The way people move is their autobiography in motion.
life-and-death soul religion
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma.
love-is lovable feels
Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.
life trinkets ifs
How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
book school hands
I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.
school law people
We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.
credibility
Credibility is what it is ALL about...
cheer hero house
Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.