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 Some Instances of Large Fees

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Srhnauz m'emals deynen Gegner an, Er is! mic du ein braver Mann.

A court proceeding is a barnyard heap Where pounds of ﬁlth a grain of justice keep.

Don't curse defendant black and blue, He's just as good a man as you.

Die Strafrechtsrevisiansinstants

Die anne Eh’ bring! wahre Freud’, first man’: Gen'chl :ie un'eder :eheidl.

Our Criminal Law Revision Court Is like a cat whose tail's too short.

Ist 'wie ein Kdtzlein ohne Sch-wants.

Unhappy marriage ﬁnds no joy to mend it, Except when judge and courts step in and end it. Verliem 41:, loss kein Thrdnlein rinnen, Z100 kémml ml sugleich ge-un'nm. At losing show no tearful face, Two mnnot win the selfsame case.

Wills! du beym Volk in Achlung :tahn, Deyn Maul muss wie ein Maihlwerk gahn. Wilt thou have honor from the mob? Then let thy tongue and jaw bone bob. Sey immer hﬁﬂich nor Gericht— Dos Zdhneﬂatschen lohnt sicht m'chl. My friend, speak judge and jury fair: It never pays to curse and swear.

Schau deyne Ada grindlich an, Sam-t bit! du eyn verlorner Mann. Be careful of your (legal) deeds, 'Tis thus a notary succeeds.

Notarius mﬁcht'st du geme seyn? Dazu is! unser Land :14 Main. Law would you study?—-Slow and steady: We know too much of law already.

Promrsloj is! air: Haufm Mist, Dareyn es'n Kérnlein Rechten: ist.

Some Instances of Large Fees By C. V. TEVIS HE day of the trust, the merger and the consolidation of the coun try’s industries brought a new oppor

of the great legal lights of the day is a marvelous one. The reversal of Judge

tunity to the legal profession.

brilliant piece of work by the Standard Oil Company's attorneys. More than $1,000 a day was the price the company

Corpora

tion law became a business, practically, and the lawyers “legal partners." tainers of $50,000 were given

Re and

Landis’ ﬁne of $29,000,000 ended a

the ability to apply it in any branch

had to pay for this service during all the long time the case was in preparation and in court. The reorganization of the sugar trust, under New Jersey laws, by

of corporation practice, the high road to

John E. Parsons was an accomplish

muniﬁcent reward was paved and shortened. It is in proportion to the growth of the huge economic combinations of the

ment for which a bill of a quarter of a million was felt not to be exorbitant.

$250,000 bills paid without a quibble. For the lawyer having knowledge and

day, that the rewards have increased.

The same applies to criminal law, for nowadays the character of the crime and of the one accused determine, to

a great extent, the lawyer’s fee. ' The record of achievement of some

The late James B. Dill eﬁected an agree ment between Carnegie and Frick after only two weeks of work, and received $125,000 reward. The $1,000,000 remuneration re

ceived by William Nelson Cromwell for the sale to the government of the French interests in the Panama Canal