“Lawyers are rarely mentioned in the Book of Mormon, so it remains unclear how they functioned in the Nephite legal system. Lawyers in Ammonihah … were officials skilled in the study of the law, hired or appointed by the people to administer the law at their times of legal trials (Alma 10:14)” (Largey, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, 800). Lawyers were compensated for each day of service before a judge, thus creating an incentive for them to stir up controversy among the people (see Alma 11:20).