2024 ONTARIO PARALEGAL LICENSING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION (FIRST ATTEMPT 100% PASS)
If your personal sense of what is right conflicts with the paralegal rules and
guidelines, what must you do? Ans👌✔- You must follow the paralegal rules and
guidelines.
If you are faced with an ethical issue what must you do? Ans👌✔- 1. Identify the
professional responsibility issue(s)
2. Review and apply the applicable rules, case law, legislation, or secondary
sources
3. List the possible options and asses the risks based on applicable rules, case
law, legislation, or secondary sources
4. Seek guidance and support (for example: Law Society's practice management
helpline)
Why were the paralegal rules and guidelines created? Ans👌✔- to ensure a high
,standard of conduct for the protection and benefit for the public interest
what can the failure to comply with the paralegal rules and guidelines cause?
Ans👌✔- Prejudice a client's rights, discredit the profession, and result in
discipline by the law society
What does the practice management helpline do? Ans👌✔- Assists paralegals
and lawyers with info on the law with properly applying law society rules and
, by-laws and offers practice management guidance through a confidential
telephone service
What does the Coach and Advisor network do? Ans👌✔- Provides paralegals
and lawyers with access to shorter-term, outcome-oriented relationships with
coaches and advisors who are drawn from the legal professions. Coaches
support the implementation of best practices, and advisors assists with
substantive and procedural law inquiries on client files.
How is the competence of lawyers and paralegals monitored? Ans👌✔- Law
society administers spot audits, practice management reviews, and practice
audit programs, all are remedial in nature.
What do practice audits asses? Ans👌✔- A paralegals practice management
processes, as well as their compliance with the financial record-keeping
requirements outlined in by-law 9.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTION (FIRST ATTEMPT 100% PASS)
If your personal sense of what is right conflicts with the paralegal rules and
guidelines, what must you do? Ans👌✔- You must follow the paralegal rules and
guidelines.
If you are faced with an ethical issue what must you do? Ans👌✔- 1. Identify the
professional responsibility issue(s)
2. Review and apply the applicable rules, case law, legislation, or secondary
sources
3. List the possible options and asses the risks based on applicable rules, case
law, legislation, or secondary sources
4. Seek guidance and support (for example: Law Society's practice management
helpline)
Why were the paralegal rules and guidelines created? Ans👌✔- to ensure a high
,standard of conduct for the protection and benefit for the public interest
what can the failure to comply with the paralegal rules and guidelines cause?
Ans👌✔- Prejudice a client's rights, discredit the profession, and result in
discipline by the law society
What does the practice management helpline do? Ans👌✔- Assists paralegals
and lawyers with info on the law with properly applying law society rules and
, by-laws and offers practice management guidance through a confidential
telephone service
What does the Coach and Advisor network do? Ans👌✔- Provides paralegals
and lawyers with access to shorter-term, outcome-oriented relationships with
coaches and advisors who are drawn from the legal professions. Coaches
support the implementation of best practices, and advisors assists with
substantive and procedural law inquiries on client files.
How is the competence of lawyers and paralegals monitored? Ans👌✔- Law
society administers spot audits, practice management reviews, and practice
audit programs, all are remedial in nature.
What do practice audits asses? Ans👌✔- A paralegals practice management
processes, as well as their compliance with the financial record-keeping
requirements outlined in by-law 9.
