Let us take a brief excursion into the not$-$too$-$distant future when you have completed your program of study and have assumed a position as a legal assistant. Suppose you are asked by your supervising attorney to draft a contract, and the attorney, who is called out of town on a personal emergency, never reviews the contract. As he dashes out of the office he yells back at you to be sure that the contract is signed by the parties within the week. Before you can utter a word of protest, he is gone. You review the contract and find a few terms that you consider problematic so you make revisions to the contract before forwarding it for signature. Can he be held liable for any provisions in the contract that eventually prove detrimental to the client?

Suppose that your attorney asks you to do a research project in the library. While en route to the library, you happen to pass a very elite clothing store, which you know is having an outrageous one$-$day$-$only sale. Knowing that this is your only chance to take advantage of these bargains, you stop by the store for a few minutes. You put your briefcase on the floor so your hands are free to do some serious shopping. Another customer fails to notice your briefcase, catches her heel on its handles, and falls to the ground. The tumble she takes is a bad one, and paramedics have to be called. Will this woman be able to sue your employer, as you were engaged in your shopping diversion during your work time?

Now suppose that, unnerved by the incident at the clothing store, you rush off to the library. Once there you immerse yourself in the task at hand. Suddenly whose face appears among the book stacks but your ex$-$spouse$$s$?$ Because you have only recently escaped the chains of matrimony, within $30$ seconds the two of you are engaged in a full$-$scale verbal war. Without warning, some demonic urge possesses you, and you find yourself using your briefcase $($the same one that just wreaked havoc on the customer$)$ as a weapon. Will your ex be able to recover from your employer for the injuries sustained as a result of your pugilistic activities?

Step $2$ Prepare an internal memo.

Prepare an internal memo discussing the questions raised in each scenario and whether the attorney in each case would be liable for the acts of his employee $($you$).$ Include a discussion of the doctrine of respondeat superior, when it is applicable, and its exceptions.