You are a paralegal working for three attorneys. One of your supervising attorneys comes to you

You are a paralegal working for three attorneys. One of your supervising attorneys comes to you

You are a paralegal working for three attorneys. One of your supervising attorneys comes to you at 4:00 p.m. on Friday and says she needs you to research case law on a legal issue before you leave. You have a 5:00 p.m. doctor appointment that you have been waiting six weeks for a spot to open.

About six months ago, you researched a very similar issue for one of the other attorneys at the firm. Would it be ethical for you to use this research? Why or why not? What, if any, are the repercussions of re-purposing this research?

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While conducting new research is a challenging and time-consuming task, it is not ethical to present the six-month-old research to the attorney as new research. Firstly, even if the study is the same, they belong to two different people who perhaps branded it as their own. Therefore, giving the attorney the same research done for another attorney 6-months ago amounts to plagiarism which is a deadly offense…………………………..

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