MPRE — Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam — Study Guide
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Conflicts of Interest
Conflict-of-interest rules protect a lawyer's loyalty and independent judgment. This chapter covers concurrent conflicts, personal-interest conflicts, duties to former clients, and imputation to a firm under the ABA Model Rules.
The Client-Lawyer Relationship
This chapter covers the formation and scope of the representation, allocation of authority between lawyer and client, fees, and the rules for ending a representation.
Litigation and Advocacy
This chapter covers a lawyer's duties as an advocate: meritorious claims, candor to the tribunal, fairness to the opposing party, and proper trial conduct.
Regulation of the Legal Profession
This chapter covers admission to practice, the duty to report professional misconduct, unauthorized practice, and the disciplinary process.
Client Confidentiality
This chapter covers the broad duty of confidentiality under Model Rule 1.6 and how it differs from the attorney-client evidentiary privilege, along with the limited exceptions that permit or require disclosure.
Competence and Malpractice
This chapter covers the duties of competence, diligence, and communication, and the difference between violating a disciplinary rule and being civilly liable for malpractice.
Judicial Conduct
This chapter covers the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct: a judge's duties of impartiality and integrity, disqualification, and permitted and prohibited extrajudicial activities.
Communications About Legal Services
This chapter covers advertising and solicitation: the ban on false or misleading communications, limits on direct solicitation, and rules on firm names and specialization claims.
Transactions with Non-Clients
This chapter covers a lawyer's duties toward people who are not clients: truthfulness to others, communication with represented and unrepresented persons, and respect for third-party rights.
Safekeeping Property
This chapter covers a lawyer's fiduciary duty to safeguard client and third-party funds and property under Model Rule 1.15, including trust accounts and the prohibition on commingling.
Different Roles of the Lawyer
This chapter covers a lawyer's duties in roles beyond litigator: advisor, evaluator, negotiator, and third-party neutral, and the special responsibilities of prosecutors.
Duties to the Public and the Legal System
This chapter covers a lawyer's responsibilities beyond individual clients: pro bono service, participation in law reform and legal-services organizations, and political-contribution restrictions.
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