litigators

Updated: June 17, 2025

One of these was a young man in a shabby gown and rumpled wig, but with a fair complexion and tolerable features a stranger to that court, and better known at Hicks's Hall, and among city litigators, with whom he had already a certain repute for keen wits and a plausible tongue about the youngest advocate at the English Bar, and by some people said to be no barrister at all, but to have put on wig and gown two years ago at Kingston Assizes and called himself to the Bar, and stayed there by sheer audacity.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - London Pride : Or When the World Was Younger