Assignment task: Law office management:
This module we focused on calendaring and deadlines in a law firm. Imagine you are a paralegal in a large law firm. You are constantly being given scheduling orders and deadlines for cases. One Friday you receive a call from the Court alerting you to the fact that your attorney has missed a pretrial conference, and the judge is considering dismissing the client's case. Alarmed, you check the attorney's calendar and realize you calendared the date of the pretrial for the next month in error. In your initial discussion post you should discuss this situation. How might calendaring errors such as this impact the client, the attorney, and you as the paralegal? What ethical issues are implicated in this situation?
In your reply response to a classmate this week, you should comment on the ethical issues raised by your classmate. You should also suggest ways in which you plan to avoid calendaring errors as a paralegal.