Upon his return, he opened a highly successful law practice on Bucharest's Costa-Foru Street (later known as Atena Street), and frequently traveled to various areas of the country in order to plead in various cases. His oratorical talent won him the moniker "Tăkiţă gură de aur", "Tăkiţă the golden mouthed", based on a pet form of his colloquial name and the title commonly associated with eloquence ("see John Chrysostom"). He became President of the Bar association in Ilfov County (at a time when it included Bucharest), in which capacity he welcomed the first-ever Romanian woman lawyer, Sarmiza Bilcescu (1891).