Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1958 — Page 12

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Articles Inform Public Os Services Os Lawyer

LEGALLY SPEAKING (This article is one in a series of 30 by the Adams county bar association presented as a public service by

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the Decatur Daily Democrat to inform the public of the point out various problems . "services of the lawyer and to

which might arise when competent legal advice is not obtained. Diese articles are not intended to answer individual problems which require specific advice.) Advice Is Commodity When a lawyer saves a client from trouble or financial difficulty the client knows only that he

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has been charged for “Advice." r The time that the lawyer spends > with his client and on his client’s’ I problems, and the advice that ,he, gives to his client is the commodity which the lawyer “sells'’ to the community. The lawyer can expect to receive, and the client can expect to pay. a fair and reasonable fee for the service rendered.

■ The lawyer’s fee is based upon many factors. These factors inI elude the benefits received from j the services rendered; the time and effort expended; the novelty and difficulty of the legal problem involved; the contingency and certainty of the compensation; the character Os the employment, whether casual or for an established or regular client;

the skill requisite to give the advice sought; the amount involved in the controversy; whether the acceptance of the employment in the particular case will preclude the lawyer s appearance for others in cases likely to arise out of the transaction; the customary charges of the bar for similar services. In determining the customary

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charges for similar services, the lawyer may properly consider a schedule of minimum fees adopted by his local bar association. Such fee schedules, however, are not his sole guide. The. lawyer’s code of ethics forbids charges which overestimate the charge for his advice and services. Further, the client's ability to pay cannot jusitfy a charge in excess of the valtfe of the serivces. Poverty, on the other hand, may require a lawyer to charge a lesser fee, or none at all. Often overlooked by the public is the study, work, acquired knowledge, and time the lawyer has spent in. order that he may be in a position to give reliable advice. In Indiana, the practicing lawyer ordinarily has from six to seven years of academic education. He must, as a general rule, three years of college work, and three years in reeogrifaed day schools or four years in approved night schools. During the three or four years of legal education, the law student endeavors to read and understand from 20,000 to 30,000 separate cases, statutes, and monographs, and to draw therefrom an understanding of the basic legal principles and legal reasoning. In addition, he studies methods of fact investigation.. court procedure. and often drafting of legal instruments. Before he can enter the practice of law. the law student must first undergo a thorough investigation of his. character and moral fitness to enter the legal profession. He must then take and pass a bar examination conducted by the supreme court of Indiana. In both counseling and litigation, the lawyer must draw upon

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a wealth of precedent which he has attempted to store in his memory, in order to fit the fact situation presented by his client into one or more principles of lajv. Usually many legal principles and rules of statute or decision are involved in even the simplest situation. Although there _i>\ often a similarity among cages involving some types of legal problems, the problems of the client, like fingerprints, are never exactly the same. The lawyer must then turn to a search of the statutes, cases, and legal treaties before he can give a proper answer. The law progresses at such a rapid rate in our modern world that the lawyer must have the benefit of the latest decisions of courts and administrative agencise, and enactments of local, state and federal legislative bodies. . ... , ..... ..... „ .... ... .. Finally, the lawyer stakes his professional reputation upon the soundness of the counseling given each client. There is the everpresent fear in the mind of the lawyer that he may have overlooked some vital missing fact, or some relevant statute of decision. Only time-consuming care and research can offer protection against' such omissions. From the client's standpoint, he expects the work of the lawyer to be prompt, efficient, honestTsound' and at a“fair price In turn, the lawyer is justified in charging a reasonable and fair fee for the time, effort, skill, judgment and risk involved in the client's behalf. The U. S. Department of Agriculture says if American farmers were farming now as they did in 1940, housewifes would be paying 10 billion dollars more annually for groceries.