14). Ethical dilemmas arise all the time in people's work, and you can never plan when it will happen. However, taking ethics training and learning more about ethics can help you whenever an ethical dilemma arises. While ethical issues are, according to Pollock (2012), “topics on which one can have an opinion but rarely the ability to take a position that has a large impact” (p. 14). Even paralegals have their limits on what they can do and what they can say. We're here to talk about things paralegals can't legally do and what happens when an ethical dilemma arises in the workplace. First of all, paralegals cannot set legal fees, take on representation, cannot provide legal advice, and cannot represent a client in court, but beyond that paralegals can assist with all the things the lawyer does (Canaday, n.d., p. 1 ). Paralegals cannot do these things because they are not lawyers and it is not their job
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