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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Go to court to break the privilege
B Refrain from reviewing and notify sender
C Refrain from reviewing; notify sender; follow sender’s instructions or go to court for resolution
D Notify sender
Question #2
A The client is protected by the work product rule
B The client is protected by the privilege
C The lawyer may be breaching confidentiality
D The recipient cannot use the metadata
Question #3
A Anti-virus protection
B Encryption
C Firewalls
D Smart cards
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 Client interviews
B Witness statements
C Legal theories
D Factual research
Question #6
A Answers to interrogatories
B Mental impressions
C Information material
D Answers in depositions
Question #7
A Information obtained in answers to interrogatories
B Mental Impressions and Information Material
C Informational material
D Mental impressions
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 Invoke the privilege and argue to protect the privilege
C Contact the judge ex parte to request nondisclosure
D None of these
Question #10
A The lawyer
B The corporation itself
C The employee whose testimony is at issue
D The chief executive officer of the corporation
Question #11
A Subject matter test
B Control group test
C Work product rule
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 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 client sues the lawyer for malpractice
C All of these
D The lawyer is prosecuted for a crime related to the representation
Question #14
A The identify of the client if divulging the identity of the client would tend to incriminate them
B The fee arrangement between a California lawyer and client
C All of these
D The whereabouts of a client
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 The privilege does not extend to nonlawyer legal service providers like corporate paralegals
B Paralegals in corporate law departments are generally unsupervised.
C None of these
D Being found to work autonomously with the consequence that the privilege does not apply
Question #17
A If the client is seeking any kind of advice
B Only if the client is seeking legal advice
C Only if the client is paying a fee
D Only after the initial consultation
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 client with an unqualified privilege not to disclose
B The lawyer a qualified privilege not to disclosure
C The client a qualified privilege not to disclose
D The lawyer with an unqualified 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