Arizona republican., 1906-11-25

Ter litigation. The patent lawyer mus lna,e mechanical ability. and to be sue lcessful must also possess unusual gen. lerai understanding. He must be | lbuslness man as we'll as a professiona
 man.
 (5) The real estate or land lawyer who handles real estate cases anC
 whose chief work concerns land titles
 t6l The divorce lawyer. who confine:
 his work to divorce cases, In and out
 of court.
 @ The collection lawyer who prac-
 tices little law save that pertaining Co
 debts and indebtedness and who is
 usually connected with a collection
 agtncy.
 (S) The criminal lawyer. whose prac-
 tlce Is defined to defending criminals
 before the court. Comparatively few
 lawyers are fitted for criminal cases
 The successful criminal lawyer Is keen
 and smart. whether or not he is great. He must be a good pleader. con- vincing speaker and able to make much
 out Of little; reader of human nature,
 and a manipulator of the human mind.
 which he must handle as tho potter
 moulds his clay. shaping 1t the way he
 wants it to set.
 The court lawyer whether a criminal
 lawyer or not, Is not, as rule, a good desk lawyer; that Is to say. his knowl-
 edge Of the manipulation Of the law IS greater than actual knowledge of the
 law Itself. He is. to an extent. the wind" of the law: and ssy this in
 no disparaging sense because the
 wind" of the law may be as neces- sary 10 success in law as Is the real substance of law. Most so-called court lawyers are connected with law firms. so that their lack of ability in one direction will be balanced by the can of their partners. one or more of whom are Indoor or desk lawyers. the other attending to the court business.
 Very few men are able to successful ly handle more than one class of law cases.
 The successful lawyer. specialist or not, is. however. proficient in funda- mental or general law. Without this knowledge he could not practice any branch of 1t. He learns to be a lawyer first and afterwards to be a specialist.
 As in an professions. there is much money. much satisfaction. much honor. for the man at the top; enough of req sonable satisfaction for the man in the middle; but in law. particularly. it is extremely hard 10 reach the top. and not one lawyer in five thousand comes anywhere near realizing his ambition. even though 1t Is placed several rungs below the top of the ladder.
 Tn one or more lawyers of considerable ability; and there are. in America. up- wards of ten thousand practitioners of sufficient capacity to handle other than ordinary cases. Below this grade there are many men, who are by no means deficient. and who are thoroughly trust worthy and of natural and developed ability. who receive fair incomes. and who live comfortably. but whose prom thence, If they have acquired any. has not been necessarily dependent upon their chosen profession. They are good public spirited. and, to an ex- tent, receive their deserts. The young lawyer can not reach prominence. nor can he hope to advance more than q step or two from the ranks. until he has successfully pitted himself against long established and successful attor- neys. Alone he must enter the battle and he must fight personally against terrible odds. In the law there is the hardest kind of competition, competi- ion so fierce that it breaks down the 1 ordinary man. and strains its heroes 1. o the breaking point Yet in this | lies only a fair remunera- | Ion to the man ot considerable ability. |
 The lawyer. unlike the business man. s not tied down to working hours. | He does not work with any degree of I 'venness. He over works and under l works, and studies and rests between he heats
 The ordinary boy has no business to hink of becoming a lawyer. Parental pride and desire should not be allowed O count in making a decision. Many parent has irrevocably ruined his boy nd made failure out of what might lave been success. by forcing him nto the law for some other than a 'ood reason. Of course. an ordinary 'oy may study law and eventually be dmitted to the bar. He, may put out is sign, and sooner or later have some ort of a clientele: but unless he is dapted for the profession. he will not e able to successfully assure respon- ibiIity.; and the few cases given him Tiii be of an Nunimportant character ie will not be so much respected nor O successful. as he would have been ad he not attempted to enter a call 1g above his capacity
 Of course. the desire to become a iwyer is the first requisite. but the de- Ire is worth nothing in itself The uccessful lawyer must be equipped 'ith peculiar mind, a special mind uch as nature only occasionally gives. his equipment can not be acquired nd can not be taught. It can not be ( It can not be grafted into le boy. He must have it in the first lace. Without it. he can not become | lore than a bOok-practioner; and all ( le study. pushing. and crowding will 9 useless. f The boy likely to become a good 4 lwyer. and likely to make any kind of i lccess of himself in that profession, I ot only possesses. but gives evidencs c reasoning qualities. and has a pro- c ounced power of analysis. These may ? crude and undeveloped. but they are | lere; and If examination will not dis I 'ver them In the boy. they will not { s,,