Louis Nizer
Louis Nizer
Louis Nizerwas a noted American trial lawyer and senior partner of the law firm Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth6 February 1902
expression good satellite thorough trial
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else-felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance-is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
face fortitude higher odds
Still, I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
believe people murphys-law
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
life father thousand
A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
art renewal fine
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
men imagination vision
A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
fishing law water
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
expression preparation trials
Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
accumulation ability
Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.
morning law library
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.
skills differences people
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
book hands lessons
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
education morning law
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.