These lawyers had one thing on their minds—money. They had perfected the art of instigating legal disputes that would support themselves. For them, it didn't matter if there were too many lawyers to go around. They would simply create enough conflict that their services would be needed. Imagine lawyers making more work that only lawyers could perform!
So why would these lawyers enter this primarily religious debate? There seems to be no offended party that is likely to bring a suit, yet all the lawyers are interested in confronting these two prophets. The reason is to further their reputations and engender some conflict that will end up requiring their services, that they might have more employ. This is a public debate with large crowds in attendance. If Zeezrom can humiliate Alma and Amulek with his wit and reason, he can further his reputation as a great lawyer and increase his clientele. So his battle cry is "conflict for the sake of conflict," which translates into more money for him.
Dean L. Larsen
"The account of the dialogue between Zeezrom and Alma and Amulek in the eleventh chapter of the book of Alma provides additional insight into Zeezrom's worldly self-assurance. He has an audience to play to, and he intends, with his practiced sophistry and cunning, to make a game of his denigration of the two missionaries. After all, the audience is completely prejudiced in his favor, and he relishes the opportunity to add to his reputation among his peers. His questions to Alma and Amulek reflect his courtroom skills. They are designed for entrapment." (Heroes From the Book of Mormon, p. 113-4)
Richard L. Evans
"The further a difficulty spreads, brethren, the more bitterly entrenched does it become, and the greater is the cost in time and in money and in feelings--sometimes even in the disaffection of our families, which is an experience that has been repeated altogether too many times. In the words of Paul--in the words of John Taylor--settle your difficulties among yourselves, if you have them. Don't worry about the lawyers. They have plenty to do without becoming embroiled in differences among brethren, and the court dockets are crowded. Settle your differences among yourselves. I hope we haven't any Zeezroms in the Church, of whose kind it was said:
'. . . because they received their wages according to their employ, therefore, they did stir up the people. . . that they might have more employ, that they might get money according to the suits which were brought before them.' (Alma 11:20)
"If we have any such I hope they are not making a living at their profession." (Conference Report, Oct. 1943, p. 37)