The logical progression of Mormon's interjected comments is that he begin to discuss the compensation received by the judges and the lawyers. He begins with the compensation of the judges. Mormon never specifically gives the "wages" of the lawyers, though they clearly participate in this process. There are two possibilities, and we do not have the data to decide which of the possibilities was the system used in Zarahemla or Ammonihah. The first is that the lawyers received some amount of compensation that was in addition to that of the judges, and that Mormon simply does not mention it. The second possibility is that the judge received the compensation, from which he paid the lawyer(s) who worked with him. It would be most likely in a scribe/lawyer system that one scribe/lawyer worked with one judge, and that the two might share in the compensation for the judicial process.