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MY TRIALS AND JUBILATIONS Highlights
from Lawyer .
"I grew up loved. And I grew up fighting. I had to. I'm still
fighting, in a different way. Bullies and snobs have always ignited
in me the fire that smolders inside my soul. I have never been able
to stand by and let someone abuse another person. I have to go in
and help. And win,"
Professor Morris
asked me what my parents did. 'Grocery business,' I said.
'I suggest you become a grocer,' he said. 'You are just
taking up space here.'
"He later
told me that he was happy for me and very proud to have been my
teacher."
"I told the jury, at the beginning of the Olin Robertson
case, 'If you can't decide this case in the amount of $510,000 in
thirty minutes, then you need to tell the judge that you need to go
on home.' You have to challenge the jury. This has been my war cry.
It has the added virtue of being true."
"The deputy and I
walked into the Sears store and went upstairs to the manager's
office. He was startled and asked what we wanted. I said that we
wanted the keys to the store and ordered him to get on the
loudspeaker system and tell the customers to leave, as we were
closing the doors."
"I have been told
since law school that the lawyer has to be objective, not get
involved with the client emotionally. To that I say, nonsense How
can I not be involved? I have been involved all my life."
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He has been called a savior, a good ol'
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"Jamail has made his millions, but he
has done it with immense compassion for those who need his help
most-the little as well as the big guys. There may be another king
of torts someday, but there will never be another Joe
Jamail."-Houston Press
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