"The general purpose of the law against champerty and maintenance and barratry was to prevent officious intermeddlers from stirring up strife and contention by vexatious or speculative litigation, which would disturb the peace of society, lead to corrupt practices, and prevent the remedial process of the law. All contracts or practices which necessarily and manifestly tend …

Therefore, when the client takes advantage of the invalidity of one clause and repudiates it, the other one cannot stand alone but must fall with it, and the result of this again is to permit the attorneys to recover for the services which they have actually rendered according to their real value and independent of the original provision in the contract upon this subject

But in the absence of some statute we are unable to hold that it is illegal or against public policy for an attorney to solicit a case.

—identifying a “systematic scheme to hunt up claims” for profit as being a course of conduct so obnoxious to public policy that a worse course of conduct “cannot be well imagined

The old common-law rules on the subject of champerty have doubtless been much modified, but the essential principle upon which those rules rested, and the evils and abuses at which they were aimed, still exist

"The general purpose of the law against champerty and maintenance and barratry was to prevent officious intermeddlers CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF ASSOCIATION

In Maslowski, the court overturned state precedent on champerty dating as far back as 1897 and most recently reaffirmed in 1932.

We subsequently applied the principle articulated in Huber to void contracts between attorneys and laypersons to instigate litigation for a profit.

In such cases both are equally guilty, and neither should be permitted, in a court of justice, successfully to assert alleged rights accruing from the iniqui-. tons agreement.