Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Friedlander

The Chicago Bar Association and 10 lawyers, individually and as members of the association’s Committee on Unauthorized Practice, filed a complaint to enjoin the defendants, who are lay persons, from rendering services alleged to constitute the unauthorized practice of law. The chancellor heard the case upon the complaint, the amended answer and plaintiffs’ motion to strike the latter, and he entered a decree in accordance with the prayer of the complaint. Defendants appeal.

The significant elements of the pleadings are expressed in the following quotation from the opinion of the chancellor:

“Def…