The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.

I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

When you see a lawyer trying to pick a smart jury, you know he's got a strong case.