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Snap—whichever caput of the three-headed Cerberus of a firm it might be—as our best friend ; and we should not only have hailed him as a " man and a brother , " but as that which is better , as an attorney , who , in all sincerity and good heart , undertook clients ' cases upon that so very intelligible , and also satisfactory principle of
" no cure , no pay . " But we had our doubts . He was , really , a little too confident . He saw , too little difficulty . He was too ready to swear—if not upon his salvation , or to put it more quietly , upon his hopes of attaining to ultimate felicity , since these hopes were , from the profession which he had chosen , somewhat slender;—but to swear , upon his . desires to attain to professional and gold-furnished
eminence , that we were all right . He was too ready to avow , we repeat , that our case was just;—that " veni , vidi , vici" was our motto •—that Court , Judge , and Jury were thrilling with eagerness to right us ; and that as to costs ( tremendous word !) they would all come out of our enemy ' s pocket—the wrongdoer ' s pocket—justly suffering
for his evasion of his duties . And the outraged , and the so-reluctantly-complaining suitor ( to wit , ourselves ) was to walk off , not only with flying colours , but with a money-bag—yea , a heavy one . Our advice to our friends is , to avoid law by every means . It is a toothed machine that will tear you to pieces . If you must , in your stupidity , trv vonr chance against anvbodv . or re ^ ardinp * anvthin sr . be sur e th at try your chance against anybodyor regarding anythingbe sure that
. , , , in the first instance , you malce all safe with the costs . But give a wide berth ( in the sailor ' s phrase ) to all those members of the profession who will undertake to do your law-work for $ only the money which they happen to he out of pocket . Be assured that this will amount to a very great deal . Perhaps that which they may happen to be out of pocket may be all out of yours .
In such cases , it is the advice which is made apparently to cost little . It is the money which is expended ( whether truly , or not ) , which makes up that which demolishes you . Heaven forbid that we should insist that all lawyers are of this very sharp kind , and that they are every one bent on the single object —the conjuring of as many sovereigns out of your pocket into their own as they can , day by day , manage ! There is peace sometimes in the Halls of Orcus . You would not always have even a devil be
spitting snakes . We know something of these things , having been a lawyer . There are not only clever men in this much-abused body , but that which is infinitely more to the purpose , good men—conscientious men . Unhappily these are too few . These latter , white , in contradistinction to the black sheep , would scorn a mean and shabby action—that is , a mean and shabby law action .
They would be indignant—and justly—if taxed with the shortcomings , or more than the shortcomings—the overgoings—of their tribe . Tortuous politics , lying , cajolery , wrong , the wresting , and twisting , and persuading , as one may say , things all your own way , after all , cost a vast deal of trouble . A little reflection will satisfy us that Ton . t . 5 c
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Untitled Article
Snap—whichever caput of the three-headed Cerberus of a firm it might be—as our best friend ; and we should not only have hailed him as a " man and a brother , " but as that which is better , as an attorney , who , in all sincerity and good heart , undertook clients ' cases upon that so very intelligible , and also satisfactory principle of
" no cure , no pay . " But we had our doubts . He was , really , a little too confident . He saw , too little difficulty . He was too ready to swear—if not upon his salvation , or to put it more quietly , upon his hopes of attaining to ultimate felicity , since these hopes were , from the profession which he had chosen , somewhat slender;—but to swear , upon his . desires to attain to professional and gold-furnished
eminence , that we were all right . He was too ready to avow , we repeat , that our case was just;—that " veni , vidi , vici" was our motto •—that Court , Judge , and Jury were thrilling with eagerness to right us ; and that as to costs ( tremendous word !) they would all come out of our enemy ' s pocket—the wrongdoer ' s pocket—justly suffering
for his evasion of his duties . And the outraged , and the so-reluctantly-complaining suitor ( to wit , ourselves ) was to walk off , not only with flying colours , but with a money-bag—yea , a heavy one . Our advice to our friends is , to avoid law by every means . It is a toothed machine that will tear you to pieces . If you must , in your stupidity , trv vonr chance against anvbodv . or re ^ ardinp * anvthin sr . be sur e th at try your chance against anybodyor regarding anythingbe sure that
. , , , in the first instance , you malce all safe with the costs . But give a wide berth ( in the sailor ' s phrase ) to all those members of the profession who will undertake to do your law-work for $ only the money which they happen to he out of pocket . Be assured that this will amount to a very great deal . Perhaps that which they may happen to be out of pocket may be all out of yours .
In such cases , it is the advice which is made apparently to cost little . It is the money which is expended ( whether truly , or not ) , which makes up that which demolishes you . Heaven forbid that we should insist that all lawyers are of this very sharp kind , and that they are every one bent on the single object —the conjuring of as many sovereigns out of your pocket into their own as they can , day by day , manage ! There is peace sometimes in the Halls of Orcus . You would not always have even a devil be
spitting snakes . We know something of these things , having been a lawyer . There are not only clever men in this much-abused body , but that which is infinitely more to the purpose , good men—conscientious men . Unhappily these are too few . These latter , white , in contradistinction to the black sheep , would scorn a mean and shabby action—that is , a mean and shabby law action .
They would be indignant—and justly—if taxed with the shortcomings , or more than the shortcomings—the overgoings—of their tribe . Tortuous politics , lying , cajolery , wrong , the wresting , and twisting , and persuading , as one may say , things all your own way , after all , cost a vast deal of trouble . A little reflection will satisfy us that Ton . t . 5 c