Thomas Leaming: 5 books

A fascinating insight into the London legal profession and courts of the early 20th century, written by an American attorney, Thomas Leaming. Leaming covers such diverse topics as wigs and gowns, training of lawyers, barristers, solicitors, the common law, the Cnancery Court, fees and the Police Courts.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important...

A Philadelphia Lawyer in the London Courts written by Thomas Leaming.  Illustrated by the Author. SECOND EDITION, REVISED.  Publishe by HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY in 1912 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY.

A fascinating, and at times, humorous, description of the British legal system during the late 19th and early 20th century, from the perspective of an American lawyer. In this book Leaming provides a brief history of the common law, and describes the role of barristers and solicitors, criminal and...

The nucleus of this volume was an address delivered before the Pennsylvania State Bar Association which, finding its way into various newspapers in the United States and England, received a degree of favorable notice that seemed to warrant further pursuit of a subject heretofore apparently overlooked....