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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Refrain from reviewing and notify sender
B Notify sender
C Go to court to break the privilege
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 lawyer may be breaching confidentiality
C The recipient cannot use the metadata
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 necessary for the protection of the attorney-client privilege
B Prohibit paralegals from revealing confidential information about clients
C Are the basis for the rule of confidentiality extending to the paralegal
D Allow paralegals to assert the privilege in court
Question #5
A Factual research
B Client interviews
C Witness statements
D Legal theories
Question #6
A Answers in depositions
B Answers to interrogatories
C Mental impressions
D Information material
Question #7
A Informational material
B Mental impressions
C Mental Impressions and Information Material
D Information obtained in answers to interrogatories
Question #8
A To ensure that there is open discovery
B To guard against lawyers having to redo work
C To promote transparency in litigation
D To protect the work of lawyers in preparing cases
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 chief executive officer of the corporation
B The employee whose testimony is at issue
C The corporation itself
D The lawyer
Question #11
A Work product rule
B Upjohn test
C Control group 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 None of these
D Prohibits the lawyer from revealing any privileged information
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 The fee arrangement between a California lawyer and client
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 All of these
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 All of these
D A lawyer reveals the information to several people not in the scope of the privilege
Question #16
A None of these
B The privilege does not extend to nonlawyer legal service providers like corporate paralegals
C Being found to work autonomously with the consequence that the privilege does not apply
D Paralegals in corporate law departments are generally unsupervised.
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 To protect the confidential information regardless of what the client says
B None of these
C To waive the privilege as needed
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 The same as the ethics rules on confidentiality
B None of these
C Broader than the ethics rules on confidentiality
D A rule of evidence law