It's true that a lot of his arguments can seem like the ravings of a Luddite: his accusation, for instance, that modern lawyers and doctors make people more irresponsible and greedy.
He'd make a fortune, and he'd become famous, and that's what modern lawyering was all about.
However modern lawyers have concluded that the rules of the time were not bent in order to assure Anne Boleyn's conviction; there was no need to tamper with rules that guaranteed the desired result, law at the time, like armies, being an engine of state, not a mechanism for justice.
He has been regularly cited by political scientists and lawyers as the model of a modern attorney general.
They shared with most of their contemporaries and with most modern French lawyers the belief that the law should be written in clear language so that it would be accessible to every citizen.
As medieval kings invoked church sanction to justify evil deeds, so in our modern world lawyers are mobilized to transform government actions that spit in the face of substantive due process -- torture, indefinite detention without charge, murder -- into something "legal".
Jesse Tyler Ferguson of 'Modern Family' marries lawyer Justin Mikita.
Further, modern regulation of lawyers focuses on outcomes rather than inputs, and so the ability to do the job will be of more importance than the route by which the skills and knowledge were acquired.
Modern Hiker's lawyers replied that defacing a national park is prohibited under federal law and may be punishable by a fine and imprisonment.
Motley's Law Doc about a female US defence lawyer in modern Afghanistan.
But Anthony Bonadies, a lawyer representing Modern Cigarette Vending, said the issue is not about tobacco use or availability to minors, but "about a business person's right to rely on the state license he or she pays $1,000 a year for to operate a legal business.
