- [Rumpole walks into Ballard's office, to find all his colleagues sat round a table]
- Horace Rumpole: Oh no! Not *another* chambers meeting!
- Samuel Ballard Q.C.: In the new age of efficiency at the Bar, Rumpole, it might be more appropriate to call it a board meeting.
- Horace Rumpole: Quite right. I'm bored to tears already.
- Horace Rumpole: Bollard's in his chambers and practically everything seems to be wrong with the world.
- Samuel Ballard Q.C.: Claude will now speak to our new ideas on possible partnership with solicitors.
- Horace Rumpole: And how will our new ideas answer him? Rudely, I hope.
- Claude Erskine-Brown: There will be a simple form for you to fill in each week, so we can monitor each member's productivity.
- Horace Rumpole: How do we monitor *your* productivty, Claude? By the number of years in chokey you manage to get for your unfortunate clients?