Legal Ethics Quiz on Professional Responsibility

LEMR Quiz: Test Your Legal Ethics Aptitude!

This month's issue of The Legal Ethics & Malpractice Reporter offers a few questions from the midterm examination taken by Professor Hoeflich’s Professional Responsibility class at The University of Kansas School of Law. See how well you can do. We will provide the answers in next month’s LEMR.

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* 1. In Kansas, a court in a disciplinary proceeding must follow ABA Formal Ethics Advisory opinions, but not advisory opinions from other states.

True

False

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* 2. The following are all concerns that a lawyer must have in order to protect client privacy under KRPC 1.6. Mark all choices that are true.

A lawyer must always use encrypted email when communicating with a client.

A lawyer may only use a fax machine to communicate non-sensitive client data.

Lawyers who want to discuss client data at a restaurant may do so long as they speak quietly.

Lawyers may release client confidential data to a court when the court orders such a release.

A lawyer may discuss client confidential data with a spouse so long as the spouse agrees to keep it confidential.

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* 3. A lawyer is contacted by a celebrity to represent her in a criminal case in which she is a defendant. She explains to the lawyer that she cannot pay the lawyer her regular fee, but is willing to pay the lawyer a percentage of the fee she will receive from a movie production company that is going to make a documentary of the trial. She also mentions that the production company will want to advise the lawyer on “trial tactics” to ensure that the film succeeds. Can the lawyer accept this fee?

Yes