Exam 3: Confidentiality

Paralegal Johnston is flying out of town to attend a deposition on the Big Container case. He's taking his laptop with him along with several CDs that contain the firm's files on the case. Which of the following is true?

Paralegal Mateo spent the day at the local law school doing research for the antitrust litigation his lawfirm just took on. His preliminary memorandum is

While researching background information on a client, Paralegal Hudson discovers that the client was once investigated by the state Fair Political Practices Commission for improperly large contributions to Congressman X's political campaign committee. As Hudson's roommate is a big fan of Congressman X, Hudson texts his roommate: "U'l neva ges wht i fnd out bout Congr. X! "

Lead File Clerk Fidora spends many hours in a large room filed with closed case files. She's very good at her job so she has hours of extra time on her hands when she must be in the file room, but has nothing to do. One day, while reading one of the criminal defense case files, Fidora got the idea that she could write one of those popular mystery-law novels. She begins her research in the case file and begins a preliminary draft of the novel. Fidora should

Client Morrie confessed to Paralegal Beverly that he lied on an answer to interrogatories. Beverly reported the lie to her supervising attorney and wrote a memorandum to the file about it, as well. When Morrie later sues Beverly's law firm for malpractice, the firm

Paralegal James is doing the final packing away of the files and creating an index for them as he puts the final touches on closing the latest probate case. It was an especially interesting case because the heir to whom the testator left 99% of his worldly possession died shortly after the testator. That resulted in allof Testator's worth being passed to Heir's son. Anyway, it was an interesting case. Now that the case is closed and Heir (the client) is dead, James is looking forward to writing an article about the case. As Heir was particularly flamboyant, James is thinking: Best Seller! As James' friend, you

Paralegal Samson has just completed the legal case of his life being part of the team that represented Mrs. Incredibly Rich in her divorce from Mr. Incredibly Rich. Now that the case is closed, Samson is looking forward to telling his wife all about it. Samson

Paralegal Beverly was sitting with Client Morrie, reading through Morrie's interrogatory answers from last year in preparation for Morrie's upcoming deposition. After reading one particular interrogatory response, Morrie declared: "OMG, Beverly! I can't believe we wrote that answer! That's completely wrong!" and then, mumbling to himself, Morrie said, "or maybe that was the lie I decided would be better than telling the truth. Hmmm." When Beverly asks you what you make of that conversation with Morrie, you

While sitting in a conference room with Client Accused, Paralegal Sofia asks, "Why did you kill your wife?" Accused responds, "Don't tell anyone but I just couldn't take her nagging one more day." When Sofia is called to the witness stand by the prosecution in Accused case, she

During an interview with Client Xavier, Paralegal Joshua learns that Xavier played on the Olympic team for Spain in 1992 when that team won the silver. Joshua, an avid soccer fan, can't wait to call his dad to share this information. Joshua

Polly Paralegal is retiring from her prestigious position with the Cochran Law Firm. During her time as a paralegal, Polly worked on some extraordinary cases including the defense of O.J. Simpson. Polly's thinking about writing a novel about her experience on that case. Before writing such a book, Polly should