The Lawyer's Guild

Description
The Lawyer’s Guild is Onkh-Morpark’s first and only legal organisation who train and provide the city with a wide variety of legal experts, including both lawyers and judges. Some would say this creates a conflict of interests. Those people are generally quickly sued into oblivion, because the Guild has little interest in practicing law. In truth, the Guild is little more than a hopelessly corrupt organized crime ring. Abusing the law is more its style and its members are corrupt almost to the last, more concerned with lining their pockets. Many specialise in fraud, embezzlement, tax evasion, money laundering and racketeering.

The Guild is headed by the Chief Justice, currently held by Sobekhotep. This position used to be earned through merit. In this case however, merit is defined as whoever manages to stab the current title holder in the back, figuratively and quite literally. Despite the Lawyer’s Guild being full of people with high ambitions though, Sobekhotep has been Chief Justice for nearly 200 years. Mostly because his subjects realize dead men’s shoes are filled by, well … dead men, and those usually don’t suffer any ill effects from that dagger in the back.

Pleader's Row
Pleader’s Row is the Guild House of the Lawyer’s Guild and their opulent guild buildings reflect its mafialike tendencies. Located on Sator Square in Onkh-Morpark, across from the Unseen University (and notable close to the Thieves' Den), it is built to look impressive and show off the Guild’s wealth and power, with plenty of gold filigree and other expensive materials. This is only an illusion, a thin veneer. After all, corrupt as the Guild’s members are, they rather prefer to allocate the building budget to their own pockets.

Sobekhotep, Morecombe & Honeyplace
Sandwiched inbetween Unseen Univesity and Pleader's Row lie the offices of Sobekhotep and his now deceased associates. The building is mostly deserted though, with only Sobekhotep's sections still in use by the Mummy lawyer and his few clerks. The other two offices are still being maintained though out of Sobekhotep's respect for his former partners. That, or he's secretly quite sentimental.

Notable People

 * Sobekhotep