LAWYERS.
THEIR POSITION DEFINE?. “Since the law is a profession and not a trade. I conceive it to be tho duty of the lawyer, just us it is the duty of tho priest or the .surgeon, to serve those who call upon him, unless indeed there is some insuperable obstacle.
“No one among all my clients has ever controlled, or fancied that he could control, my personal or my political conscience. I am vain enough to imagine that no one ever will “The only limitation upon a rightthinking lawyer’s independence is in the duty which he ow T es to his clients, once selected, to serve them without the slightest thought of the effect such a service may have upon his own personal popularity or political fortunes. Any lawyer who .'surrenders this independence or shades this duty by trimming his professional course to fit tho gusts of popular opinion in my judgment, not only dishonours himself but disparages and degrades the groat profession to which he should l»e proud to belong.”— John W. Davis, former Am*bassador to Great Britain and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 197, 29 July 1924, Page 7
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