The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick is a lecture delivered by Frank Lockwood at the Morley Hall, Hackney, on December 13th, 1893. The subject of his lecture was laweyers in Dickens' novels. According to Lockwood, Dickens was impartial in his treatment of lawyers as he had seen both the good and the bad in them. Lockwood chose to take the lawyers of one of Dickens' books; and he chose the book “Pickwick”.

"Charles John Huffam Dickens, (1812 - 1870), pen-name "Boz", was the foremost English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Considered one of the English language's greatest writers, he was acclaimed for his rich storytelling and memorable characters and achieved massive worldwide popularity in his lifetime. Later critics, beginning with George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, championed his mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James and Virginia Woolf fault his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrence and grotesque characters. The popularity of Dickens' novels and short stories has meant that not one has ever gone out of print. Dickens wrote serialised novels, the usual format for fiction at the time, and each new part of his stories was eagerly anticipated by the reading public."

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