1. Don't identify yourself. Attorneys just love being interrupted by total strangers demanding free advice.
2. Call seeking advice for someone else. Attorneys enjoy practicing "proxy law" by getting usually-specious information from intermeddling third parties with no standing.
3. Call an attorney referred by an organization you aren't a member of, expecting the same benefits. Attorneys who offer free consultations to, say, GOAL members really enjoy calls from non-members who expect the same privileges as those who actually support gun rights.
4. Call utterly unprepared. Attorneys have absolutely nothing better to do than wait for you to rummage around a drawer 3 rooms away to find the letter, application or other document you're calling about, but didn't bother to get before you called
5. Argue about the law. Attorneys enjoy stimulating conversations about the laws they deal daily from people who don't, but insist upon disputing the opinion they called to get.
6. Be completely clueless about changes that occurred years ago and which you should have been aware of. Attorneys truly enjoy listening to rants about the law by people just learnng about Chapter 180. This is the "Fudd Rule."
7. Don't listen to the answer you called to get. Attorneys have no higher calling than to take a call, listen to the caller, provide the answer requested, only to have that caller completely mistate, misrepresent or ignore that advice.
8. Call from a cell phone while driving or while at work. Attorneys enjoy the challenge of trying to ascertain your point while you are cut off, fade out, drowned out or interrupted.
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2. Call seeking advice for someone else. Attorneys enjoy practicing "proxy law" by getting usually-specious information from intermeddling third parties with no standing.
3. Call an attorney referred by an organization you aren't a member of, expecting the same benefits. Attorneys who offer free consultations to, say, GOAL members really enjoy calls from non-members who expect the same privileges as those who actually support gun rights.
4. Call utterly unprepared. Attorneys have absolutely nothing better to do than wait for you to rummage around a drawer 3 rooms away to find the letter, application or other document you're calling about, but didn't bother to get before you called
5. Argue about the law. Attorneys enjoy stimulating conversations about the laws they deal daily from people who don't, but insist upon disputing the opinion they called to get.
6. Be completely clueless about changes that occurred years ago and which you should have been aware of. Attorneys truly enjoy listening to rants about the law by people just learnng about Chapter 180. This is the "Fudd Rule."
7. Don't listen to the answer you called to get. Attorneys have no higher calling than to take a call, listen to the caller, provide the answer requested, only to have that caller completely mistate, misrepresent or ignore that advice.
8. Call from a cell phone while driving or while at work. Attorneys enjoy the challenge of trying to ascertain your point while you are cut off, fade out, drowned out or interrupted.
Mods may wish to make this a "sticky."
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