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When attorneys treat paralegals as personal confidants

My attorney is going through a messy divorce and overshares personal details with me daily and I feel like an unpaid therapist instead of a paralegal.

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Your boss keeps dumping personal problems on you, and you feel more like a therapist than a paralegal.

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