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