Show LESS RANT THAN FORMERLY chero I 1 now a more aulet system in the practice ol 01 law there is as much learning here in the legal profession as ever but it is I 1 not on exhibition said a lawyer to a philadelphia record man in the first place the courts will not countenance its undue display in 0 1 l times an advocate was allowed great latitude formerly in a case of damages caused by a neglected sidewalk the attorney would be allowed to expound not only the laws relating to damages for neglect but he might stray off into the realms of medical jurisprudence at great length and even perorate with an allusion to the magna charta the constitution ution and the american eagle at present a lawyer must confine himself to the real merits of his case the machinery of our courts lias grown too costly to permit such waste of time it follows that there is less oratorical skill displayed than in former days especially at the period when some of conr leading lawyers made a specialty of criminal defense now few lawyers of eminence either in philadelphia or the east generally undertake the defense in a criminal case today to day the practice of law like other professions is being more and more specialized A law office is simply a business office as you may discover by visiting some of the new handsome office buildings down town I 1 know of one office there arc several partners that would remind you of a banking office and where a bookkeeper and a cashier are employed to payoff clerks typewriters and other employed emp loyes you will however still find veteran members of the bar pursuing old time methods in a cozy quiet office sitting at a baize covered table amid a wilderness of well chumbr books they carry a dark green filled with briefs when aboy r jaff court precisely as all lawyers y f 0 and cs lemdon i sterl lawyd b however tal cn absy mayac d phout social pre tige their sarr to advance in fie profession is ge g e to be a hard one practice now often inherited or transmitted an some 0 way I 1 could point out t A you in philadelphia law firms th t have lyen confined to the bembo cs of one fa mily or its collateral brances br anres since the th e revolution |