CHAPTER 3 MODULE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What steps should you take to avoid miscommunication in a busy law office? - ans-
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(1) immediately after receiving an assignment, briefly repeat back your understanding of what
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you have been asked to do, (2) find out what priority each of your tasks should have, (3) for len
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gthy or complex assignments, send your supervisor a brief note or email message in which yo
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u confirm what you have been asked to do and when the due date is, (4) keep a personal work
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in progress (WIP) report in which you record your current tasks
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What is the three-part strategy for dealing with office politics? - ans-
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(1) be competent, (2) publicize your competence without boasting, (3) look for ways to make o
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What are some of the secrets of successful paralegals? - ans-
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(1) high quality of work, (2) efficient management of workload, (3) work well under pressure, (4
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) fact management skills, (5) professionalism, (6) works independently, (7) high quality of writt
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en work, (8) ethics, (8) excellent contact with others, including work relationship and teamwor
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What are some of the reasons friction once existed between paralegals and some secretaries
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Competent secretaries were once highly valuable in the law office settings and given a variety
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of important responsibilities. When paralegals started, they began doing those more importan
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t tasks and the secretary began doing more secretarial work. This led to resentment.
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What are law office systems and why are they sometimes difficult to implement? - ans- sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw
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nt because (1) there are few or no systems as most attorneys practice law in their individualisti
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c ways, (2) no one has done any serious design work, (3) an ineffective system is currently in
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place, (4) a system is in place, but the participants do not believe in it, (5) a system exists on p
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ANSWERS
What steps should you take to avoid miscommunication in a busy law office? - ans-
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(1) immediately after receiving an assignment, briefly repeat back your understanding of what
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you have been asked to do, (2) find out what priority each of your tasks should have, (3) for len
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gthy or complex assignments, send your supervisor a brief note or email message in which yo
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u confirm what you have been asked to do and when the due date is, (4) keep a personal work
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in progress (WIP) report in which you record your current tasks
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What is the three-part strategy for dealing with office politics? - ans-
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(1) be competent, (2) publicize your competence without boasting, (3) look for ways to make o
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thers look good sw sw
What are some of the secrets of successful paralegals? - ans-
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(1) high quality of work, (2) efficient management of workload, (3) work well under pressure, (4
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) fact management skills, (5) professionalism, (6) works independently, (7) high quality of writt
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en work, (8) ethics, (8) excellent contact with others, including work relationship and teamwor
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k
What are some of the reasons friction once existed between paralegals and some secretaries
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? - ans- sw sw
Competent secretaries were once highly valuable in the law office settings and given a variety
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of important responsibilities. When paralegals started, they began doing those more importan
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t tasks and the secretary began doing more secretarial work. This led to resentment.
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What are law office systems and why are they sometimes difficult to implement? - ans- sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw
Law systems are an organized way of accomplishing a task. They may be difficult to impleme
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nt because (1) there are few or no systems as most attorneys practice law in their individualisti
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c ways, (2) no one has done any serious design work, (3) an ineffective system is currently in
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place, (4) a system is in place, but the participants do not believe in it, (5) a system exists on p
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aper, but no one has spent the time and energy to make the system work sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw sw
