Show LESS RANT THAN FORMERLY there now a more in the practice 0 law there is as much learning here in alie legal profession as ever but it is not on exhibition said a lawyer to a philadelphia record man in the first place the courts will not countenance its undue display in oki times an advocate was allowed great latitude formerly in a case of damages caused by a neglected sidewalk the attorney be allowed too expound not only he laws relating to damages for neglect but lie might stray off into the realms of medical jurisprudence at reat length and even perorate an allusion to alie magna charta the constitution ution and the american eagle at present a lawyer must confine himself to alie real merits of his case the machinery of our courts has grown too estly to permit such waste of time it follows eliat there is less oratorical kill displayed than in former days especially at the period when some of our leading lawyers made a specialty of criminal defense now few lawyers jf eminence in philadelphia or the cast generally undertake the defense in a criminal case today to day the practice of law like other professions is being more and more 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 where there are partners that would remind you of a banking office and where a bookkeeper and a cashier are employed to pay off clerks typewriters and you will however still lind veteran members of alie bar pursuing old time methods in a cozy quiet office sitting sit tinT at a baize covered table amid a wilderness of well thumbed boks thy carry a dark green bag tilled briefs when they go to ourt precisely as all lawyers did fifty years ago and as london barrist cra still do As to young lawyers however talented aliey may be if without social prestige struggle to advance in tho profession is sure to bo a hard one practice now is often inherited or transmitted in some other way I 1 could point out to you in philadelphia law linns that have been confined to the members of one family or its collateral branches since tho revolution |