Henry Lord Brougham, Written by Himself*

In a recent article,1 Professors Fred C. Zacharias and Bruce A. Green have made an error in discussing Henry Lord Brougham's famous declaration about the duty of zealous representation that lawyers owe to their clients.2 The purpose of this essay is to correct that error, which first appeared in a 1907 book by John Dos Passes.3 As part of their article, Zacharias and Green argue that lawyers should adopt the ethic of "professional conscience" expressed by a nineteenth century Pennsylvania judge, John Bannister Gibson, rather than the client-centered ethic of Brougham.4 As the authors explain ...