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Just for Fun by: Pam Buchnoff Interesting Facts
Modern Technology Can Be Tricky. Fun Facts About Lawyers and Law
(Answers) 1. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), President, and Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), defense attorney in the Scope trial of 1925. While he attended law school for one year, he did not distinguish himself and preferred to study law on his own. He received the greater part of his education in a law office in Youngstown Ohio. 2. The ABA was founded on August 21, 1878, in Saratoga Springs, New York, by 100 lawyers from 21 states. The legal profession as we know it today barely existed at that time. Lawyers were generally sold practitioners who trained under a system of apprenticeship. There was no national code of ethics, there was no national organization to serve as a forum for discussion of the increasingly intricate issues involved in legal practice. 3. May 1st. |
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