“It is expected you should do your best for those you are assigned for, as it is expected in any other case, that you do your duty for your client.”

— John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)

Rookwood's Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 154.

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English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England 1642–1710

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