MPRE — Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam — All Questions
3 questions
Under Model Rule 6.1, a lawyer's responsibility to provide pro bono legal services is best described as:
- a.An obligation that applies only to lawyers in private firms
- b.A duty owed only to existing paying clients
- c.An aspiration every lawyer should work toward✓
- d.A strictly enforced requirement whose violation results in disbarment
Rule 6.1 says "every lawyer has a professional responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay" and "should aspire to render at least (50) hours" a year. It is not enforced through discipline.
Under Rule 6.1, most of a lawyer's aspirational pro bono hours should go to whom?
- a.People of limited means.✓
- b.Any nonprofit, regardless of whom it serves.
- c.The lawyer's existing clients at a discount.
- d.Bar association committees.
Rule 6.1(a) says a lawyer should provide "a substantial majority of the (50) hours of legal services without fee or expectation of fee to: (1) persons of limited means or (2)" organizations serving the needs of persons of limited means.
A lawyer who is a candidate for judicial office must comply with which code?
- a.Only state election law.
- b.Only the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
- c.The Code of Judicial Conduct.✓
- d.No code until elected.
Rule 8.2(b) states that "a lawyer who is a candidate for judicial office shall comply with the applicable provisions of the Code of Judicial Conduct."