After Working on the Defense Side of Asbestos Litigation for Many

question 4

Multiple Choice

After working on the defense side of asbestos litigation for many years, Paralegal Kawika decides he wants to work for a small firm and branch out away from asbestos into real estate or family law. Kawika sends out some resumes and gets a call from a law firm that does primarily real estate and family law but does represent some asbestos plaintiffs. Kawika should

• A) interview with this firm but bring a list of his current clients with him so they can check for conflicts.
• B) interview with this firm and accept an offer from them only after getting a written waiver of the conflict from his current employer
• C) not bother to interview with this firm because the conflict of interest is obvious and no asbestos plaintiffs lawyer would hire him.
• D) interview with this firm and accept an offer from them only after getting a written waiver of any potential conflicts from the new employer

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Definitions:

Decision Making

The mental process involved in choosing one option out of many possibilities.

Law School

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Evaluating Options

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Linguistic Relativity

The hypothesis that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition.