Lawyers have been around for a long time. Lawyers of the time were known as the great orators of ancient Greece. If you needed a lawyer, you were an individual in your own case and had to defend it yourself, but a friend or family member would probably be more likely to help you speak on your own behalf. Around the fourth century, the Greeks stopped asking their friends to speak on their behalf. Furthermore, another problem that arose was that you could not accept any remuneration for arguing a case. This law was ignored in practice, but was never abolished, which meant that the worker could never present himself as a legal professional or expert. They had to keep quiet about the fact that they were just ordinary citizens helping a friend for free. These so-called “lawyers” were never really organized into a true profession, like modern lawyers today. The ban on charging fees was abolished by Emperor Claudius who legalized lawyering as a profession and allowed Roman lawyers to become the first lawyers to be able to practice themselves in their time and place. The salary was not very high and was not very high; th...