Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...your intercourse with the members of the bar be marked by the most perfect good faith, professional courtesy, and true self-respect. This is easily said, but not always easily accomplished. You will not always receive such treatment from members of the bar; and in the heat of the conflicts that take place at the bar, it requires more than ordinaryself-control to abstain from that which we may thereafter regret. But it is of the utmost consequence to every lawyer, and especially of every young lawyer, that he obtain the respect, confidence and good will of the profession. The profession must ultimately settle his position at the bar. Their verdict will be final. Few things so undermine a man's position at the bar, as to be guilty of sharp practice with his brethren of the profession. No high-minded man will be guilty of it, and no man can ultimately sustain himself in such a course. When associated with others in the trial of a cause, show your readiness to do your full share of the work. Some lawyers throw the work to be done upon their associates, and seek to share only the fees and the glory. The trial of a case of complicated facts in law, at the circuit, is a much severer test of a man's power, than the arguing of a case in the supreme court. In the latter case there is usually ample time for preparation, patient research, and careful thought, that will enable a man of culture, discipline, and fair legal reading, to make a good argument, and do justice to his subject. But at a nisi prius trial, events follow each other in rapid succession, and a lawyer should have perfect command of every faculty of his mind. He must, with an eagle eye, discover the weak points of his own case and those of his adversary, and skillfully cover the one...
