Paralegals and Legal Assistant Test Set 1

One of the core ethical principles for paralegals states that all paralegals must demonstrate professional competence and personal integrity at all times. How might you violate this rule?

A plaintiff will state the "relief" he or she is seeking in the complaint to the lawsuit.

Which of the following remedies for breach of contract must be included in the contract in order to be recoverable?

A number of events take place as part of discovery in a lawsuit. Which of the following is not one of them?

After the parties sign a contract, a party finds that the contract fails to express the intention of the parties due to mutual mistake. The contract is rewritten to clarify and correct the errors. What is the proper name for this process?

In an estate case, a paralegal may carry out confidential communications with the client's banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, accountants and others, to collect asset information.

A judge has entered judgment and awarded damages to a client who incurred no financial losses as a result of the conduct underlying the case. What is the proper term for the kind of damages the judge has awarded?

A paralegal is most likely to inadvertently violate attorney-client privilege in which of the following circumstances?

An attorney asks you to check the validity of a case he cites in his brief. You Shepardize it. Which of the following case histories indicate that the case is no longer good law?

Under the laws of all 50 states, in a real estate closing, a notary cannot act both as a notary and as as a witness to the signing of the documents.