Legendary Houston litigator Joe Jamail’s career is punctuated with irascible, blunt and pugnacious speech. The “King of Torts” wasn’t one to lightly tiptoe around a subject. He spoke so directly that remembering him would seem incomplete without some of his most quotable moments. Below are a few choice examples from Texas Lawyer reports of the comments he uttered through the decades he towered over the Texas legal world.

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