Paralegal Julio Has Been Friendly with Paralegal Nextar for Several

question 4

Multiple Choice

Paralegal Julio has been friendly with Paralegal Nextar for several months. Nextar admitted to Julio that he regularly "pads" his timesheets by adding an additional 10% to any time entry that is over 1 hour. Julio should

• A) tell Julio that his policy is unethical, illegal, and is cheating the client.
• B) report Nextar's timesheet padding to their supervising paralegal or attorney
• C) try this policy himself.
• D) report Nextar's timesheet padding to the clients who have been over-charged

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Definitions:

Personality Characteristics

Traits and qualities that describe an individual's consistent behaviors, thoughts, and feelings.

Stable

Characterizing something that is unchanging, consistent, or not easily disturbed or upset over time.

Actor-observer Effect

The tendency to attribute one's own actions to external causes while attributing other people's behaviors to their internal characteristics.

External

Outside of or existing beyond the self or the entity it refers to, often used in contrast with internal.