Childhood -- In legal practice -- The various courts -- The various lawyers -- The inns -- Firms and offices -- Reformers and cynics -- Observing and reporting -- Legal friends and acquaintances -- Copyright and litigation -- The use of lawyers in the works -- Mr Pickwick's unhappy experience -- Oliver Twist and the old curiosity shop -- Aunt Betsey's lawyers -- The villainous heep -- Tommy Traddles -- The fall of heep -- Bleak House -- The lesser lawyers in Bleak House -- A tale of two lawyers -- Great expectations -- An odd couple -- Grewgious and bazzard -- Epilogue : the death of Dickens.
Summary
"A study of legal aspects of the works of Charles Dickens"--