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12 multiple-choice questions and 7 flashcards on Professional Responsibility, about 4% of the UBE bank. Every one carries a written rationale.
Professional Responsibility is one of 16 chapters in CoStudy's UBE — Uniform Bar Examination bank, and it holds 12 of the bank's 301 multiple-choice questions — roughly 4% of the total. That proportion is not arbitrary: chapters follow the certifying body's published exam outline, and the number of questions in each is set by that domain's published weight, so the share of your practice time this chapter takes matches the share of the real exam it accounts for.
Studying by chapter is worth doing once you have a diagnostic score. A single overall percentage tells you whether you are close; it does not tell you which domain is dragging. Working a weak chapter in isolation, and re-testing it in isolation, is the fastest way to move a score that has stalled — and it is why the mock exams in CoStudy report by domain rather than as one number.
3 questions drawn from this chapter, with the full rationale shown — the controlling principle behind the right answer, and why each wrong option tempts and fails.
A prospective client met with a lawyer for an hour, disclosed detailed financial information, and then retained a different firm. The lawyer was never engaged. What duty does the lawyer owe?
Answer: A — A duty to protect the information learned and a limited disqualification from adverse matters
A) Correct - a prospective client is owed confidentiality as to information learned, and the lawyer may be barred from adverse representations where that information could be significantly harmful. B) Tempting because no engagement occurred, but the Rules expressly protect prospective clients. C) Tempting because the consultation was substantive, but the duties owed are narrower than those owed to a client. D) Tempting because returning materials is proper, but it understates the obligation.
Under Model Rule 1.6, a lawyer may reveal client information to:
Answer: D — Prevent reasonably certain death or serious injury
A) The general public is not an authorized recipient. B) Media disclosures generally violate confidentiality. C) Personal disclosures to a spouse violate the rule. D) Correct — MR 1.6(b) permits (and some states require) disclosure to prevent reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm.
A lawyer received a $5,000 advance from a client for fees not yet earned and $300 from the client for an anticipated filing fee. How must the lawyer handle these funds?
Answer: B — Deposit both into a client trust account and withdraw fees only as they are earned
B) Correct - unearned fee advances and funds for costs are client property and must be held in a trust account, with fees withdrawn only as earned. A) Tempting because careful bookkeeping seems adequate, but commingling is itself the violation. C) Tempting because some jurisdictions treat certain flat fees differently, but the Model Rules require unearned advances to be held in trust. D) Tempting because segregation is the goal, but the Rules require a designated trust account.
3 cards from the 7 in this chapter.
Confidentiality (Model Rule 1.6)?
Broader than privilege. All information related to representation. Lawyer must protect.
When may a lawyer take on a concurrent conflict of interest?
When the lawyer reasonably believes competent and diligent representation is possible, it is not prohibited by law, it is not a claim by one client against another in the same proceeding, and each affected client gives informed written consent.
Distinguish the duty of competence from the duty of diligence.
Competence requires the legal knowledge, skill, thoroughness, and preparation reasonably necessary. Diligence requires reasonable promptness and commitment in pursuing the matter.
These are a sample. The full Professional Responsibility chapter runs 19 items with per-chapter progress tracking, on the web and in the iOS app.