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Law Firm Legault Arruda & associés

End-of-study project - Paralegal techniques Collège CDI. Administration. Technologie. Santé.

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As part of your End-of-study project, you will have to work and respond to all requests from the

Legault Arruda et associés Law firm. It is an office that brings together lawyers practising in

several areas of law as well as notaries.

You will have to apply all the concepts learned in class in order to hand over your completed files to your employer.

Your files will be sent to you in phase with delivery deadlines to be met. Any delay will be sanctioned based on the number of days of lateness.

When you submit completed files or ask questions of your employer, you will need to write a professional email that respects all the rules seen in class, including the confidentiality notice and the full address.

Phase 1: Code of Ethics

You are employed by Me Jean-Claude Van Damme, of the Legault Arruda & Associés Law Firm, a general partnership. Your office is located at 2020 Mercier Boulevard, Suite 52, Laval, H7N 1M1. Me Van Damme's email address: [email protected]. The phone number at the office is 450-662-6470. The fax number at the office is 450-658-7894. Code: LA-5796

To complete the billing, Me Van Damme provides you with the following information:

 File opening fee: $150.00 (Lump sum)

 A paralegal's hourly rate: $85.00

 Me Van Damme hourly rate: $250.00

 GST: 197846541245 QST: 45784915467

Me Van Damme informs you that he is newly appointed to sit at meetings of a group that wants to form the Association of Paralegals for CDI College. Administration. Technologie. Santé. He is sending you a draft of the Code of Ethics that they developed during the last meetings. Here is what is required in this file:

Client's Name: Association of Paralegals of CDI College. Administration. Technologie. Santé.

Representative: Sylvain Généreux

Address: 338 Beauport Street Montreal, Quebec, H4S 8M5

Phone: 450-623-7595

Email: [email protected]

File number: 3214-2

Advance fee: $250

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Work to be completed:

 Using the skills achieved in the 1 and 2 Word Processing courses as well as Law Review and Methodology, please correct the layout of the text and produce a clear table of contents;

 Using the skills achieved during the course of Ethics and Legal Financial Management, find the five ethical errors. Write a memo to Me Van Damme by specifying the articles of the Code of Ethics for Lawyers that were not respected. Make sure you follow the rules of the McGill Canadian Guide to Legal Citation;

 Using the skills achieved during the Legal Drafting courses as well as Bilingual legal terminology, please complete the missing definitions and specify the terms in English;

Additional instructions:

Billing and agenda

 In order to complete the billing, you need to write down your time and keep track of what you have done by specifying the date, file number, task performed and time invested. For example, you can write in a Word file:

TIME SHEET

Date: May 25, 2020 File number: 3214-2 Task: Fixing of the layout Time: 1 hour

Date: May 26, 2020 File number: 3214-2 Task: Insertion of the table of materials Time: 0.5 hours

 You must also enter the delivery time and reminders in the Outlook electronic calendar. You will eventually have to send everything to Me Jean-Claude Van Damme, who will verify your ability to keep an agenda.

Delivery deadline: 9h00 01/11/2021