The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-26
Old-Time Feuds

poration lawyers used to be at daggers' points I recall that steps were taken to disbar at least one lawyer for unprofes- sional practice. Personally, I am not aware of any unprofessional conduct to- day on the part of any attorneys of my acquaintance here.
 'It seems to me. however, that the gen. eral spirit of our bar association could be decidedly improved; code of ethics pro- mugated and maintained and the asso- oiaton could be made real factor in this community, for progress.
 "yhe New York Bar association has possibly the highest standing of any in the country, and is a most potent inf1u- ence is that state for good. It controls the judicial appointments entirely and sweeps out the element of politics from the court room.
 "No disreputable lawyer is allowed to become a member. A man has to have an exceedingly high standing indeed to be admitted. Thus it means a great deal to be a member of the New York Bar association
 One of the judges here diagnosed the situation in reference to the young lawyer as follows:
 "The main trouble here in Birmingham Is that there is not enough business to go around. There are lots of young lawyers here, more, I daresay, than in any other ! town in Alabama, for the reason that Birmingham is the most talked of, and the most advertized place in the state. The young men would rather come here and get to the front than stay in the country.
 And now the city's overcrowded 1 There's not much chance either unless the young fellow starts in with we'll established law firm and works up. You can't get business nowadays in the good cld-fashioned way of sitting in your office and waiting for it to turn up That don't work anxf more, at any rate, not in Birmih ghani Yet it's con sidered unprofessional to solicit. If I'd | a wife and children to support or simp- 1 ly my own living to make and didn't have any business dropping in, don't l you think I ought to get out and so- 1 licit some pretty quick? Of course, it 1 depends good deal on just what kind | is solicited. But a young lawyer has | got to hustle in Birmingham. He's got | to be a good mixer. belong to clubs, | lodges, etc. and indirect advertising g of that character is good principle-un- der certain conditions, although any ad = vertising, too. is considered unprofes- sional!"
 According to the Hebrew lawyer, | Louis D. Brandeis of Boston, Mass.
 'The peoples thought will take shape | III dctioi. AHu IL litS WllH our ldWyeTS
 to say in what lines that action shall
 be xpressed-wisely or tenn perately,
 or wildly and intemperately; in lines
 of evolution. or in lines of revolution
 Cannot the Birmingham Bar asso- l ciation with all the good timber 1t has become an energetic force for good in Il this community? And help on the young
 lawyer with the right ideals?
 Here 1t is recently asserted to be-
 as an organization, 'inanimate, dor
 mant. without brotherly feeling or CO.,
 operation, and while 1t has remained
 listless germs of corruption have been sapping its very life blood" This is the truth.
 No Halt Called |f Malpractice among certain members pr the legal profession exists hert + without check or letsup and has ex'