Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1910 — He Wouidn’t. [ARTICLE]

He Wouidn’t.

Joseph H. Choate, brilliant lawyer of New York, deprecated at a recent dinner the exorbitant fees charged by some lawvers. “You have perhaps heard,” said Mr. Choate, “of the gentleman who remarked to his counsel, when his case was settled: "‘Well, your fee, sir, is exorbitant I know positively that you didn’t give two hours to my case from first to last.’ “ ‘Ah. sir,’ said Mie lawyer, airily, ‘it is not alone my actual time I charge you with, but the cost of my legal training as well.” “ ‘All very fine,’ retorted the client ‘And now I wonder if you’d mind giving me, a receipt for the cost of your legal training, so that your next customer won’t have to pay for it all over again!* ” ——3 2