Legal assistants must be able to keep confidences because:
a. Clients do not like their secrets told
b. Paralegals should not gossip
c. It is an ethical rule imposed on attorneys
d. Clients do not like their secrets told and it is an ethical rule imposed on
attorneys
C
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