Dislike of lawyers goes way back
Or maybe it was just annoying attorney ads that riled people up.
Yesterday, the Nevada Appeal quoted a letter the Morning Appeal had received in 1878 from Elmira Louisa Pepsey. In subscribing to the paper, Miss Pepsey wrote:
We have noticed one pleasing peculiarity of your instructive and purifying paper: It is free from all such horrid things as lawyers advertisements! Ma, who has a great dislike for lawyers, says your paper is a precious blessing on this account.
Of course, distrust of lawyers existed as far back as Shakespeare’s time, as the oft quoted passage from Henry VI, Pt. 2 “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” But hey – those words were spoken by supporters of the villains!
But it does make me wonder what sorts of advertisements might lawyers have had back in Shakespeare’s time.
