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Gentleman at the bar

Pseudonym connotes a person of objective unbiased legal judgement.

“Gentleman of the Bar” is a pseudonym employed to evoke an objective, professional sensibility, without bias, and independent of all economic inducements or incentives. A gentleman at this time, was to be a person of independent means who could not be bought or corrupted. Being also of the law, this writer sought to convey that he was of impartial or objective legal opinion.