Show Ways of Lawyers I A young attorney was accosted by an acquaintance ac-quaintance yesterday with the commonplace salutation How do you do As there is nothing to do was the nonchalant non-chalant reply it is immaterial as to how it is done < Does the depression in commercial circles affect the law business generally for the worse I should suppose it would give it an impetus The business is not so very bad except among young attorneys Depression in business is not the sole cause of our illluck Older attorneys and some of them having a lucrative practice in the higher courts are getting in the habit of dsecending to justice courts even in matters of small account It is true that some of the older lawyers make a practice of turning over patty suits to younger men but they are few I Are collections from clients becoming more difficult Somewhat but he is a poor lawyer who I cannot collect his fee There are certain well known attorneys recognized in the profession pro-fession as model lawyers able speakers and I good counsel who bind their clients with a rockribbed contract If money can not be I paid them their chattels are accepted in I lieu A very welllaiowu attorney recently I made it a condition of a contract of this I land that in case tho money was not forthcoming forth-coming then he was to receive the sealskin I i sack which his lady client wore Others will not take a case without what is known as a retainer which is nothing more than part pay in advance Not a few lawyers of a certain class are willing to take cases mak contingent upon winning the ing their pay case Of course the pay is commensurate with the risk and is usually half the amount sought to be recovered but I have known a case in which threefourths was allotted I which I These of course are desperate cases reputable lawyer would take and indeed which no attorney with but little or no reputation re-putation as such would touch unless constrained con-strained to do so by the hope of winning the reward and a peal from the bugle of fame I Detroit Post I |