Which of the Following Is a Task You, as a Paralegal

question 128

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a task you, as a paralegal, might have to do to construct an ethical wall around a specific attorney for a certain case?

• A) Prepare a memo to the office manager regarding the conflict and the need for special arrangements to ensure that the specific attorney will have no involvement in the case.
• B) Prepare a memo to the firm giving the case name, the nature of the conflict, the parties involved, and instructions to maintain a blanket of silence with respect to the specific attorney.
• C) Arrange for the lawyer's office to be on a separate floor from the team working on the case.
• D) Prepare a memo to the office manager regarding the conflict and the need for special arrangements to ensure that the specific attorney will have no involvement in the case, and prepare a memo to the firm giving the case name, the nature of the conflict, the parties involved, and instructions to maintain a blanket of silence with respect to the specific attorney only.
• E) Prepare a memo to the office manager regarding the conflict and the need for special arrangements to ensure that the specific attorney will have no involvement in the case; prepare a memo to the firm giving the case name, the nature of the conflict, the parties involved, and instructions to maintain a blanket of silence with respect to the specific attorney; and arrange for the lawyer's office to be on a separate floor from the team working on the case.

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Definitions:

Minimum Cost

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Increasing Return to Scale

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Increasing Return to Scale

A situation in which output increases by a larger proportion than the increase in inputs in the production process.

Long-Run Average Cost Curve

A curve showing the minimum average cost at which a firm can produce any given level of output in the long term, when all inputs are variable.