Fran Francis has just gone to work for Georgia Graham, who is genius litigator and fiery advocate but is notoriously disorganized and hard to get along with. Fran is the third in a series of paralegals who have worked for Georgia in a year. Georgia is away on vacation for two weeks, giving Fran time to get organized and situated.

Among other tasks, Fran has taken it upon herself to straighten Georgia’s office. While Fran is going through Georgia’s desk, she finds a file in the back of the bottom drawer. It appears to relate to a case on which the statute of limitations will run out the next day, and it looks like nothing has been filed. On top of her worries about this the case, Georgia did not give permission to Fran to go through her desk. Fran knows how to prepare the complaint and file it and also realizes that it could be amended later. What should Fran do? Can she prepare the complaint? Sign it? File it?