Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
A man is rich in proportion to the amount of things he can afford to let alone.
It may be true the the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and that’s pretty important.
If you are out to describe truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey…. till custom make it their perch and not their terror.
That must be right, but what exactly does it mean?
Once in a while we stumble on the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
Mr. Martin has a litigation practice in Oakland, CA. He is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, who earned his B.A. from the University of California and obtained his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law in New York City. Mr. Martin worked as an associate for a Wall Street litigation firm then returned to California in 2007 to start his own practice.
Mr. Martin created BAYCONSUMERLAW.COM as an effort to provide useful legal information tailored to the local community and with hope that it will help to achieve the objectives associated with his pro bono work and his commitment to public interest law.