Show ENGLISH LAWSUITS they aro and the I demand alig fees and air england thero aro lauy fees to bo paid by the unhappy client of a lawyer that arc unknown here in america there is a retaining fee which is a guinea and a half crown to the clerk besides the brief fee which is more important por tant then there is the refresher of the leader and the refreshers of subordinate lawyers in england the leaders refreshment which is duo after five hours the brief fee being supposed to cover only the getting up of the case is 10 or a little over 50 while 25 be paid to the lesser lawyers according to english etiquette no counsel can leave his circuit to plead in another without a special retainer which in most cases cannot be less than guineas this is probably to discourage poaching A would bo client once wrote to a famous american lawyer stating a case for his opinion and inclosing a 20 note the lawyer did not reply whereupon the client broto a second letter and received word from the lawyer that he had read the case and formed an ton but somehow it artuck in his throat the client took the hint and sent a note receiving the lawyers opinion by the next mail nobody does anything for nothing especially a lawyer lord mansfield was so sensible of this that on one occasion when he had attended to some legal business for himself ho took some guineas out of his parse and put them in his waistcoat pocket to give him tho necessary stimulus sir anthony ma lonc an irish attorney general was RO imprudent as to forget this fact and was grievously punished for it for he was so inattentive to some property of his that ho lost a year by it and in the future lie required his clerk to make abstract deeds of any property he might buy and lay them before him with a fee of 6 guineas properly andors ed which the clerk was to scrupulously account for after which sir anthony made no more mistakes in regard to his own property chicago news |