Show young lawyers I 1 justice sharswood has the foll following ow to say regarding the studies and habits of a ayoung young man just admitted to the bar he cannot be faithful to his ills clients unless he continues to be a hard student of the learning of his ills profession not merely that lie he should thoroughly investigate the law applicable to every case which may be be in trusted to him though that besides its paramount nece necessity S sl to enable him to meet the responsibility lie he has assumed to that particular client will be thoeub tho subsidiary means of or important progress in his prof professional essi essl onal acquisition acquisitions letany levany person says mr preston 1 study ono or two heads of the law fully and minu minutely tely teis and lie he will have laid the foundation or acquired the aptitude for comprehending of the law but besides this lie he should pursue the tile system atie atle study of his profession upon some well matured plan when admitted to the bar a young man mail has just began not f finished Inis lied his legal edu education nation if he has mastered kome some of or the thel most general element aly alv principles and has lias acquired a taste for the study it is as much a can be expected from his clerkships clerk elerk ships there are arc few young men who come coine to the tile bar sho aho vho who cannot nind rind ample time in the first five live or seven years of or their novitiate to devote to a complete acquisition of the science they profess if they truly feel the need of it and resolve to attain it IL the danger dauger 0 is 14 great that from a faulty preparation 1 from not being made to see shee and appreciate to the depth extent and variety of the knowledge knowledge they are to seek they will vill till iril mistake stake the tile smattering 0 they have acquired for profound attainments the anxiety of the young lawyer li 13 a natural one at once to ia get business as much business as lie all ali ean can rh rowing aside his books lie resorts to the many means meal at hand of 1 6 gaining notoriety and attracting public attention with a view of or brili bringing gilig clients to ills his olnee such an ail one in time never nalls fails 3 to leam loam much of or ills his ini int mitake but at a sad ex penco of character f feeling celing a and ud conscience he at tit last finds that in III law ai aai a i in every bra branch of or knowledge a at little learning is a dangerous au 4 tiling h ing that whal what he does doea n not ot know falsifies often in its actual application that which supposed he lie he certainly did know and null atter alter the most valuable portion bonlon of ills his ilfe life has been fretted away upon 0 objects b unworthy of ills his ambition lie he is too apt to conclude that it is now too late to redeem his ills time lie he finds that lie ho has lost all relish for systematic study and when he is driven to the investigation of particular questions is confounded and embarrassed unable to thread his way through ii the mazes of authorities thorit thorl ties les to reconcile apparently conflicting cases or deduce any satisfactory is conclusion on from them in short lie he has liag no greater aptitude accuracy and discrimination than when ho lie set out in tile the beginning of his hin studies no better advice can be given to a young practitioner than to con confine flue himself generally to his office and books even if this should require self seif denial and privation to map dut but for himself a course of regular n studies more or less ek tended extended according to circum sta stances nebA to aim at mastering the works ortho great luminaries of the science coke fearne prest preston oll oil powell sugden and others not forgetting the maxim ezelius melius est faulis quam sectary edos and to to investigate for himself the most important and interesting 41 questions byan by an examination 11 and research of the tile original authorities he that research eth deepest seeth the amiable and admirable secrets of the law and thus may the student proceed in his ills reading with alacrity and set upon and know how to work into with delight these rough mines of hidden treasure laga journal |