I came to feel that the American lawyer should regard himself as a potential officer of his government and a defender of its laws and Constitution. I felt that if the time should ever come when this tradition had faded out and the members of the bar had become merely the servants of business, the future of our liberties would be gloomy indeed.
—Henry Stimson, secretary of war and state, in his 1947 memoir
From handguns to tobacco, Jones Day defends the powerfully damned and the damned powerful.
—American Lawyer magazine, January 2004