"I think lawyering is really very simple: It's word of mouth."

Cooley lawyer Michael Rhodes: "I think lawyering is really very simple: It's word of mouth."

The Recorder article also mentions the Maldives, and a quote about some departing lawyers: "there's no there there"

When Gertrude Stein wanted to visit her childhood home in Oakland, she could not find the house, and wrote :

What was the use of me having come from Oakland, it was not natural for me to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

One thinks about "patent quality" as a catchphrase in patent reform.