Question: g Professional Misconduct This Discussion is based on your Week 7 Content and Readings. Outside research to address these issues is encouraged. I suggest using

g Professional Misconduct This Discussion is based on your Week 7 Content and Readings. Outside research to address these issues is encouraged. I suggest using the APUS online library to find additional sources of information and research. In particular, I strongly recommend that you utilize the Legal Studies Program Guide because it will save you a lot of work in the long run. This Discussion asks you to examine Professional Misconduct. Please thoroughly discuss the following: Monica comes to Dozier law firm, gives a $10,000.00 retainer and signs a fee agreement to have Dozier represent her in a family law case involving a dissolution of marriage and child custody agreement. The attorney asks you, the paralegal, to oversee the case, as he is tied up in court litigating other cases for other clients. As you are record keeping billable hours and billing out the client each month, you discover the attorney has been overcharging Monica and double billing Monica and another clients for the same time/hours. What are the ethical concerns as the paralegal overseeing this case? What legal issues have been presented? Would you report the professional misconduct? Why or why not

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