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• There was once a professor of law who said to his stude
  When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge....
• When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law.
  When both are against you, call the other lawyer names. (To see this in action, watch L.A. Law)...
• Lawyer's Rule: When the law is against you, argue the facts.
  When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, call the other lawyer names....
• The Rule of Law: 1. If the facts are against you, argue the law.
  2. If the law is against you, argue the facts. 3....
• Any facts which, when included in the argument, give the desired result, are fair facts for the argument.
  -- Fairfax's Law...
• It is difficult to win an argument when your opponent is unencumbered with a knowledge of the facts.
• Persons disagreeing with your facts are always emotional and employ faulty reasoning.
  -- Murphy's Fourteenth Law...
• Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions seldom black or white.
  Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the other side to be totally the winner....