Zeezrom, who contended with Alma and Amulek and was subsequently converted, is described as a lawyer, one that was expert in his area, "having much business to do among the people." Alma 10:32 adds, "Now the object of these lawyers was to get gain; and they got gain according to their employ." In fact, those assigned as judges and legal administrators were paid under the new law of Mosiah by their time. Alma 11:1 says, "Now it was in the law of Mosiah that every man who was a judge of the law, or those who were appointed to be judges, should receive wages according to the time which they labored to judge those who were brought before them to be judged." Apparently, Zeezrom was one who earned his living according to the time he spent in such legal matters, which gave them incentive to aggressively encourage litigation.