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The Duty Calls

The duties are easy to recite and hard to honor at 11 p.m. before a filing deadline. Eight scenarios below — each is a moment where the pressured move and the required move come apart. Make the call.

How to use this: pick what the duties actually require, then read the reasoning under every option — the tempting wrong answers are where the learning is. All scenarios are fictional.

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