The Practice quotes

For you to equate what I did to a shooting homicide sickens me.

Helen

Well if you're sick, please don't go to a doctor whose quick with the morphine.

Ms. Mackenzie, I have a bladder the size of a small cashew. Let's cut down the nonsense. Just answer his questions.

Bobby

Am I to understand that instead of accepting two hundred thousand, you settled on one forty, plus hospital care?

Jimmy

Yeah.

Bobby

You realize that we can't take a contingency on a girl's smile? If you had settled on two on a straight cash deal, this firm would have made an extra sixteen thousand dollars. You do know that.

Jimmy

It crossed my mind.

Bobby

Jimmy, you said you don't know what this place is. What you just did, I'd like to think that's, exactly what this place is. Good job.

Ow!

Jimmy

Move to strike!

Yeah, but I still think that if we put in that I had a girlfriend, it would have made me look loving and caring.

Lindsay

Well, we were limited by the fact that you don't have a girlfriend, Kenny.

Yeah, but if we had put it in, I would have got one.

Ellenor

What exactly do you think our reputation is here, Bobby? I mean, who are you kidding? We are "reasonable doubt for a reasonable fee". We are a bottom-feeding-do-whatever-you-can-to-get-your-client-off law firm. That is exactly what we are. And what Lindsay and I did may not have been ethical, it was completely in the spirit and the tradition of Bobby Donnell.

[to Bobby] Things don't happen in a vacuum, Bobby. I mean, maybe you have some inner compass that gives you clear directions, I don't really know. But if others try to take direction from you, I have no doubt but they'll be lost.

Your associates talked to a juror. They were wrong. Judge Stevens was right.

Bobby

Technically.

That's the way we do things here, Bobby. Technically.

The picture's already been painted, Mr. Donnell. Do you read the papers?

Bobby

Mary Jane, the newspapers have done nothing to prepare you for what you're in for once you get in that witness chair.

That's argumentative and badgering.

Bobby

This is a cross examination. I would submit the doctor is being argumentative.

Let's just have a nice, civil murder trial, shall we?

Don't you think if we were going to do something like this we would have made sure we had an alibi?

Well, that's a good thought, Mr. Forsythe. Did you think of that before or after you killed him?

Oh, please, that kind of discrimination goes on all the time. The only difference here is, I admit it. Harry is a negative guy who looks like an ape. And I don't want him working for my company. There's a juror over there, I won't say which one who looks like a possum. I wouldn't hire him either.

I'm terribly sorry, but I think it's time for another break.

Jimmy

I tell ya, I was nervous. I think the defendant blew it though when he called one of the jurors a possum. You can't predict how things are going to go, but insinuating that one of the jurors is a member of the rodent family is not an accepted tactic.

Is it a good sign that they came back this quick?

Jimmy

It's a very good sign if we win, but not if we lose.

That was helpful.

Jimmy

Objection! That's a legal conclusion.

No, it isn't. But I'll sustain the objection anyway.

Jimmy

On what grounds?

I just ruled in your favor, counsel.