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