• First Time – maybe you forgot or didn’t get my message.
• Second Time – maybe you are busy putting out forest fires or in trial.
• Third Time – maybe you are one of those lawyers that procrastinates or is disorganized.
• Fourth Time – maybe you are embarrassed that you haven’t called me back.
• Fifth Time – maybe your can’t get your client to call you back.
• Sixth Time – maybe you don’t know the answer and don’t want to tell me that.
• Seventh Time – now you are being discourteous and disrespectful to a fellow member of the bar.
• Eighth Time – you must be unprofessional and incompetent.
• Ninth Time – you ought to be disbarred.
• Tenth Time – how do you ever get any clients?
• Eleventh Time – I don’t even want to talk to you now.  I’ll see you in court.

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