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Show LAWYERS WITH ONE CLIENT. They Are the Fortunate Ones of th Profession. The poverty of briefless barrister is as proverbial as that of the church mouse. It would not be an unnatural mistake tp consider a barrister bar-rister with only one client hardly better off than one with none. But the modern "one-client lawyer" is usually a prosperous individual. Said a man well known in the business world some years ago to a friend: "I want a young lawyer to put down at a desk beside mine. I'll familiarize him with my affairs, and then I want him to keep me out of trouble." The counterpart of this lawyer, whose duty it is to act as his own client's ounce of prevention, may be found In the office of many large concerns. He iS OffpTl mnHOPta -nrf li tt-,.., panies, banks, banking houses, railroad rail-road and other transportation companies com-panies and large wholesale mercantile mercan-tile houses. When a merchant found himself in a tangle, it was once the custom for him to go to his lawyer for advice. The results were a written "opinion" and a fee. The business man to-day obtains a law-year law-year who shall work for him alone. Again the field of the general practitioner practi-tioner is narrowed. The World's Work. |