Analyze and identify specific ethical problem

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Case 1

Instructions
Yeats has discussed with you that there are increasingly new and changing roles and career opportunities for paralegals and legal assistants in workplaces outside law firms and legal organizations. For example, the HR department in corporations can offer new career options.
These new opportunities can be advantageous, but also present new ethical issues and potential risks.

Yeats wants you to research new career options and their related ethical issues and prepare a summary report of your findings.

Instructions:

A. Identify an article discussing at least one new career opportunity for paralegals and legal assistants outside the traditional settings of law firms and other legal organizations.

Provide the URL to the article.

B. Describe one new career option discussed in the article you identified in A. above.

C. Analyze and identify two specific ethical problems/issues that could arise in the new career role (described in B. above) relevant to a specific rule(s) in the Model Rules and/or Model Guidelines.

Identify specific rule(s) by title and number.

Discuss how and why the ethical issues can arise in the new role and how they are relevant to the Model Rule(s) and/or Model Guideline(s) you identified.

Case 2

Instructions

Yeats wants you to begin research on current articles and issues related to technology and ethics in the legal profession. To that end, she assigns you the following research task.

Instructions:

Question 1. Find a current article in a legal publication about technology in the legal profession and its relationship to ethics and professional responsibility.

Suggested resources:
ABA publications
AAfPE (American Association for Paralegal Education) publications
NALA (National Association of Legal Associations) publications
State bar association publications
Law school Law Review Journal articles, other scholarly articles
The Wall Street Journal
Other periodical publications so long as they are substantive articles
Blogs, newsletters, law firm websites, cable new sites, WIKIS, and newspapers (other than The Wall Street Journal) may NOT be used as resources.

If you doubt whether your resource is acceptable, ask the professor, please.

Question 2.List the URL and title for article

Question 3. Summarize the article in 1-2 paragraphs.

Question 4. Analyze and discuss specific potential ethical issues the technology creates for the legal profession.

Question 5. Research whether there is an existing Model Rule and/or Model Guideline relevant to the technology discussed in the article.
(1) If there is an existing Model Rule or Model Guideline related to the technology, identify it by number and briefly explain how/why the Rule or Guideline is relevant to the technology.
(2) If there is not an existing Model Rule or Model Guideline related to the technology, is one needed? Why or why not?

Question 6. Analyze and discuss how the technology might affect how paralegals do their jobs.

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