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ABA MODEL GUIDELINES FOR THE
UTILIZATION OF PARALEGAL SERVICES©
Preamble
The Standing Committee on Paralegals of the American Bar Association drafted,
and the ABA House of Delegates adopted, the ABA Model Guidelines for the Utilization of
L A “   M       
recommendations or guidelines for the utilization of services provided by paralegals. 1 All of
these recommendations or guidelines are intended to provide lawyers with useful and
authoritative guidance in working with paralegals.
T “ C     M G   
legal and policy developments that may have taken place since the last update in
2012. A Table of Contents and a Table of Authorities have been added, and the
C        T “ C   
view that these and other guidelines on paralegal services will encourage lawyer s to utilize
those services effectively and promote the continued growth of the paralegal profession. 2
The Standing Committee has based these 2018 revisions on the American Bar
A M ‘  P C  M ‘    
attempted to take into account existing state recommendations and guidelines, decided
authority and contemporary practice. Lawyers, of course, are to be first directed by M odel
Rule 5.3 in the utilization of paralegal services, and nothing contained in these Model
1 I   ABA B  G         I
1997, the ABA            A 
assistant or paralegal is a person qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed
or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity who performs
           T  
             
   ould be aware that the terms legal assistant and paralegals are often
used interchangeably.
2 While necessarily mentioning paralegal conduct, lawyers are the intended audience of these
Guidelines. The Guidelines, therefore, are addressed to lawyer conduct and not directly to the
conduct of the paralegal.

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