The Model Code of Ethics and Professional responsibilty and Guidelines for Enforcement of a paralegal. In the next few pages that follow, I will discuss in great detail what they are and how it affects the job and or duties of today's paralegal. First and foremost let me say this: they are a few web sites that help paralegals in their everyday operations.
These web sites are; the Natioal Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA), http://www.paralegals.com/home.html; the National Association for Legal Assistants, http://www.nala.org/index.htm; (my favorite) the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAFPE), http://www.aafpe.org/. I went to these and other web sites to investigate and what I found out was that WCC associates with A.A.F.P.E. and your name (Ippolito) was on the web site. Also I went to the New York State Unified Court System web site at: www.courts.state.ny.us and I noticed a few new things at this web site this year compared to last year. There is a new section at this web site, the "court help" section and it is very, very useful, especially if your pro-se. This section is broken down into 4 subsections: Court Facts, Forms, The Law, Lawyers. The Court facts gives you courthouse information, the right court for your problem, help at the Courthouse. The Forms subsection gives you a long list of forms to choose from like; family law forms, uncontested divorce forms (Supreme Court), civil law forms (Supreme Court and Surrogate's Court). The Law subsection gives you a law dictionary to look up definitions and has a law library addresses. It also has Legal Term's: What do they mean and answers to common law questions. The Lawyer subsection has a lawyer referral service. A place where you can get a name and phone number for a lawyer for a lawyer, but enough said let's get to work.
I will call the Model Code of Ethics, the Rules because that's what it seems to me, professional discipline through regulations.
