Lawyers have been around for a long time. Lawyers were then known as the great orators of ancient Greece. If you needed a lawyer, you were an individual in your case and needed to defend it yourself, but a friend or family member would probably be more likely to help speak for you. Around the 4th century, the Greeks got rid of asking friends to speak for you. Additionally, another problem we encountered was that you could not accept any compensation for filing a lawsuit. This law was disregarded in practice, but never abolished, which meant that the worker could never present himself as a professional or legal expert. They had to keep quiet that they were just an ordinary citizen helping a friend for free. These so-called “lawyers” were never really organized into a real profession, like modern lawyers today. The ban on compensation was abolished by Emperor Claudius who legalized law as a profession and allowed Roman lawyers to become the first lawyers who could practice the profession in their own time and place. The pay wasn't very high and it wasn't much; th...