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