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I'm sure you've all found out about the fictitious law firm of Dewey, Screwem, and Howe. However in real life there existed an attorney which was, without a doubt, the many crooked and corrupt lawyer of all time. The name of the law firm was Howe and Hummel (William Howe and Abraham Hummel). Both of these shyster attorneys were the main players in a sleazy law firm, founded in 1870, which NEW YORK District Attorney William Travers Jerome said in 1890, "For a lot more than 20 years, Howe and Hummel have been a menace to the community." The founding member of the law firm was William Howe. Howe was an extremely large man, over 6 feet tall and weighing as much as 325 pounds. Howe acquired wavy gray hair, a large walrus mustache, and he dressed loudly, with baggy pantaloons, and diamonds, which he wore on his fingertips, on his view chains, as shirt studs, and as cuff buttons. The only period Howe wore a tie was at funerals. At trials, or anytime he was observed in public, instead of a tie, Howe wore diamond clusters, which he owned many. A New York lawyer, who was acquainted with Howe, said Howe derived tremendous enjoyment from cheating jewelers out of their payments for his many diamond purchases. "I don't think he ever paid a high price for all those diamonds of his," the lawyer said. "He never bought two at the same jewelers. When he got one, he'd make a small deposit, and then when he previously been dunned two or three times for the total amount, he'd assign one of is own young assistant shysters to fight the claim. Of program, he had enough money to pay, but he got a kick out of not paying." Howe's history before he arrived in New York City is quite dubious. What's known, is that Howe was created over the pond in England. Howe arrived in NEW YORK in the first 1850's as a ticket-of -leave guy, or in common conditions, a paroled convict. No one ever knew, nor do Howe ever divulge, what his criminal offense had been in England. Nevertheless, it was frequently said that Howe have been a doctor in London and had lost his license, and was incarcerated, consequently of some criminal act. However, Howe insisted that while he was in England he had not been a doctor, but in fact, an associate to the noted barrister George Waugh. However, Howe's explanation of who we was, and what he do in England, could not be confirmed

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