Pettifogger is original a name for such persons, who itself, to be settled without being attorneys, professionally with it concern, the legal matters against payment for others.

In some areas, in which an attorney was not prescribed, pettifoggers had in former times a substantial meaning.

The term developed around 1900 and has its origin in lawyers in the angle, thus secretly, works.

Today pettifogger is a devaluing name for a lawyer, who it lacks legal knowledge, who does not do this however to overact tried and also without unfair methods.

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