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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Notify sender
B Refrain from reviewing and notify sender
C Refrain from reviewing; notify sender; follow sender’s instructions or go to court for resolution
D Go to court to break the privilege
Question #2
A The recipient cannot use the metadata
B The client is protected by the privilege
C The client is protected by the work product rule
D The lawyer may be breaching confidentiality
Question #3
A Anti-virus protection
B Smart cards
C Encryption
D Firewalls
Question #4
A Prohibit paralegals from revealing confidential information about clients
B Are the basis for the rule of confidentiality extending to the paralegal
C Are necessary for the protection of the attorney-client privilege
D Allow paralegals to assert the privilege in court
Question #5
A Client interviews
B Factual research
C Legal theories
D Witness statements
Question #6
A Answers in depositions
B Answers to interrogatories
C Mental impressions
D Information material
Question #7
A Information obtained in answers to interrogatories
B Informational material
C Mental impressions
D Mental Impressions and Information Material
Question #8
A To guard against lawyers having to redo work
B To ensure that there is open discovery
C To protect the work of lawyers in preparing cases
D To promote transparency in litigation
Question #9
A Turn them over no matter what because the court has so ordered
B None of these
C Invoke the privilege and argue to protect the privilege
D Contact the judge ex parte to request nondisclosure
Question #10
A The lawyer
B The employee whose testimony is at issue
C The chief executive officer of the corporation
D The corporation itself
Question #11
A Subject matter test
B Work product rule
C Control group test
D Upjohn test
Question #12
A Prohibits the lawyer from revealing any privileged information
B Allows the lawyer to reveal privileged information if the client is planning a crime
C None of these
D Mandates that the client reveal the protected information
Question #13
A The lawyer is charged with ethics violations related to the representation
B The lawyer is prosecuted for a crime related to the representation
C All of these
D The client sues the lawyer for malpractice
Question #14
A The fee arrangement between a California lawyer and client
B All of these
C The identify of the client if divulging the identity of the client would tend to incriminate them
D The whereabouts of a client
Question #15
A The client has a friend in the room while talking to the lawyer on the phone
B All of these
C The client tells a friend the information that is otherwise protected by the privilege
D A lawyer reveals the information to several people not in the scope of the privilege
Question #16
A Paralegals in corporate law departments are generally unsupervised.
B Being found to work autonomously with the consequence that the privilege does not apply
C None of these
D The privilege does not extend to nonlawyer legal service providers like corporate paralegals
Question #17
A Only if the client is paying a fee
B If the client is seeking any kind of advice
C Only after the initial consultation
D Only if the client is seeking legal advice
Question #18
A To waive the privilege as needed
B To protect the confidential information regardless of what the client says
C To advise the client of the privilege and to protect the privileged information
D None of these
Question #19
A The lawyer a qualified privilege not to disclosure
B The client with an unqualified privilege not to disclose
C The client a qualified privilege not to disclose
D The lawyer with an unqualified privilege not to disclose
Question #20
A Broader than the ethics rules on confidentiality
B The same as the ethics rules on confidentiality
C A rule of evidence law
D None of these