Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Similar to the ABA’s position on the ethical use of email, many jurisdictions approve of the use of email in the law firm.
2. The attorney-client privilege takes effect when one lawyer requests another lawyer to be a witness against the client, or compels the lawyer to produce evidence concerning the client.
3. Legal assistants are covered by the attorney-client privilege, even though they are not attorneys.
4. Even though the rules of discovery allow one side in litigation to learn information about the other side’s case, the attorney-opinion work product rule protects against the disclosure of a lawyer’s strategies and mental impressions concerning the case.
5. The ABA’s view on inadvertent disclosure is that if the receiving lawyer receives protected material from the opposing lawyer, the receiving lawyer must return the material upon discovering that it is protected, but does not have to return protected material that a third party has sent to the receiving lawyer.
1. True
2. True
3. True
4. True
5. True
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