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'For the first time in my professional life, my parents actually know what I do.'Charles Elson, corporate governance specialist from Newark in Delaware, discussing the high media profile of the Enron scandal.

'The Justice Department, if unchecked, will bring us into a police state.

I'm afraid of a Justice Department that would use every means available to it to fight terrorism.'Andrew Napolitano, former New Jersey superior court judge and currently Fox News legal affairs expert, speaking at 'Will September 11 change the constitution?'

'The American public is not prepared to see a cutback in constitutional rights for American citizens.

However, it is prepared to see a cut-back in the constitutional rights of middle eastern men.'Angela Davis, professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law

'The terrorism legislation? I doubt whether Congress read it.

But I have, and it is worse than James Joyce - it's unreadable.'Harvard law professor Arthur R Miller

'We should arrest and punish those US lawyers who practise illegally abroad.

And perhaps we should put them in detention centres.

Let them fly in but don't let them fly out.'Ken Murphy, director general of the Law Society of Ireland on the phenomenon of 'fi/fo' where US lawyers dealing with European clients fly in and out on a tourist or business visa that prohibits fee earning.

It is a practice technically in breach of immigration and local bar rules.

'The time to get excited is when we stop bothering to count the number of women entering the profession.

The time when there are no women lawyers, but just lawyers - some men and some women - that is the goal we should all have.'Judith Vladeck, one of five winners of this year's Margaret Brent women lawyers of achievement awards