Word: clients
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interpretation of the law and the defence of his client, the advocate seeks no mean or technical success, but the truth; in the church the minister desires not first to defend his own position, but to know what is the truth; in politics the legislator or the voter thinks not first of party success and popular legislation, but what is, on the whole, in the name of and for the cause of the truth; in the intricate social problems the citizen's chief concern is not the protection of his own interests, the strengthening of his own prejudices...
...processes of study instead of waiting till he could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount of such inconsistency is inevitable in a mind like his. He is the Demosthenes of criticism, who always has a client to defend or a criminal to attack, and he is perfectly right in saying that he is never illogical, if by that he means that his individual syllogisms are never false in form. Moreover, a man who sets out to discover a theory that shall reconcile all phenomena is very...
...discussed the question of advocating or giving up a case which a lawyer knew to be wrong. The best way for every lawyer is to undertake no case unless he is convinced of its justice. The first thing for a careful lawyer to do is thoroughly to examine his client as to the facts and circumstances connected with the case. The trouble with many clients is that they seldom tell their lawyers everything connected with the case and thus there is a weakness which may easily be seen by the lawyer of the opposite side...