The Advocate in Court

An advocate or lawyer is not bound to defend the poor without charge, except in lawsuits in which a poor man cannot be otherwise helped but by this lawyer at this time.

It is just that persons should be debarred from the office of advocate who have no fitness for the office.

An advocate is not to defend, knowingly, an unjustcause.

It is just for a lawyer to take a fee for his services. For a man may justly take payment for giving what he is not otherwise bound to give. An advocate is usually free from the obligation of taking upthe cases brought to him; if he accepts the task, he ought to be paid for performing it. Exorbitantfees, however, are unjust; they amount to extortion, and so are a kind of robbery.