An attorney may not ethically accept a deposit for advances for costs and expenses from a client by credit card because the attorney must deposit such advances into a client trust account.

The State Bar has been split into a mandatory section which focuses on admissions and discipline, as well as, a voluntary section called CLA.

When a prosecutor knows of clear and convincing evidence establishing that a defendant in the prosecutors jurisdiction was convicted of an offense that the defendant did not commit, the prosecutor shall seek to remedy the conviction.

Red-green colorblindness is a sex-linked (X-linked) recessive disorder. Draw a Punnett square for a cross between a colorblind man and a carrier woman following the example below. (Hint: remember to include the X and Y chromosomes!) Hold your drawing up to the webcam for at least 5 seconds. What letter(s)/symbol(s) did you put in space 3? _______ What letter(s)/symbol(s) did you put in space 4? _______ What letter(s)/symbol(s) did you put in space 5? _______ What is the chance of their sons being red/green colorblind? _______ Their daughters? _______

In compliance with Rule 1.6 of the California Rules of Professional Conduct, a lawyer is required to always reveal any information disclosed to him or her to prevent a criminal act.

List the three processes that promote genetic diversity of offspring during sexual reproduction.

When a lawyer-client relationship ends, the lawyer owes two duties to the former client. One, he may not do anything that will injuriously affect the former client in any matter in which the lawyer represented the former client. Secondly, the lawyer may not use former client knowledge or information he learned from the previous relationship.

Under California Business and Professions Code Section 6450(a), a paralegal in California must work under the direction and supervision of an active member of the State Bar of California or an attorney practicing law in the federal courts in California

You work as a paralegal in a workers’ compensation law firm.  The lawyer you work for has approximately 300 files they are working on.  You have worked for the lawyer for a number of years and can pretty well predict the dollar amount for which most of the cases will settle.  To help your boss, you take a call from a Farmer’s Insurance adjuster who explains that the most your firm’s client can obtain is $15,000.  You know that this will be within the attorney’s acceptable amount and go ahead a request settlement documents.  Since your boss was in court, you went ahead and emailed them to the client with a detailed email asking them to review the terms of the proposed settlement.  The client signed and returned them and you forwarded the signed documents to Farmers.  You have not committed UPL.  

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