A “pettifogging shyster" is an unscrupulous practitioner who disgraces his profession by doing mean work, and re-sorts to sharp practice to do it Bailey ▼. Kalamazoo Pub. Co., 40 Mich. 231. See, also, Grlbble v. Pioneer Press Co., 84 Minn. 342, 25 N. W. 710
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
