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
educational men comfort
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
inspirational heart men
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
kids responsibility men
When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
men imagination vision
A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
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
life father thousand
A father is a thousand schoolmasters.
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.
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.
morning book golf
Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.