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A review by smtenaglia
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law by Preet Bharara
5.0
This book often felt like Preet was sitting across a coffee table from me, sharing little vignettes from his tenure at SDNY in between snippets of career advice.
“The law is an amazing tool, but it has limits. Good people, on the other hand, don’t have limits. The law is not in the business of forgiveness and redemption. The law cannot compel us to love each other and respect each other. It cannot cancel hate or conquer evil; teach grace or extinguish passions. The law cannot achieve these things, not by itself. It takes people— brave and strong and extraordinary people.”
“You want to be a good lawyer? Work on how to speak. You want to be a great lawyer? Work on how you listen. You could substitute ‘leader’ for ‘lawyer’ in both of those sentences and express an even more universal truth.”
“Do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. And do only that.”
“The law is an amazing tool, but it has limits. Good people, on the other hand, don’t have limits. The law is not in the business of forgiveness and redemption. The law cannot compel us to love each other and respect each other. It cannot cancel hate or conquer evil; teach grace or extinguish passions. The law cannot achieve these things, not by itself. It takes people— brave and strong and extraordinary people.”
“You want to be a good lawyer? Work on how to speak. You want to be a great lawyer? Work on how you listen. You could substitute ‘leader’ for ‘lawyer’ in both of those sentences and express an even more universal truth.”
“Do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. And do only that.”