"A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged."

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I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.

— Rebecca Hall