BUL 5810 LEGAL ETHICS AND
GOVERNANCE MODULE ASSESSMENT
SCRIPT ITEMS ANSWERS PROFESSIONAL
RESPONSIBILITY REVIEW 2026
◉ What are Special State Courts?
Answer: Trial courts, such as probate courts and family courts,
having jurisdiction over a particular area of state law.
◉ What are Appellate Courts?
Answer: State courts that include one or two levels; the highest
court's decisions are final except in those cases reviewed by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
◉ What is Subject Matter Jurisdiction?
Answer: The authority of a court to decide a particular case.
◉ What is Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction?
Answer: Federal courts have sole jurisdiction over Federal crimes,
bankruptcy, antitrust, patent, trademark, copyright, and other
specified cases.
,◉ What is Concurrent Federal Jurisdiction?
Answer: When both state and federal courts have jurisdiction over a
case; Federal and State courts have concurrent jurisdiction over 1.)
Federal question cases that do not involve exclusive Federal
jurisdiction and 2.) diversity of citizenship cases involving more
than $75,000
◉ State courts have exclusive jurisdiction over all matters to which
the Federal judicial power:
Answer: does not reach
◉ What is Jurisdiction Over The Parties?
Answer: The power of the court to bind the parties to a suit.
◉ What is In Personam Jurisdiction?
Answer: Jurisdiction based upon claims against a person, in contrast
to jurisdiction over the person's property.
◉ What is In Rem Jurisdiction?
Answer: Jurisdiction based on claims against property.
◉ What is Attachment Jurisdiction?
Answer: Jurisdiction over a defendant's property to obtain payment
to a claim not related to the party.
, ◉ What is Venue?
Answer: Geographic area in which a lawsuit should be brought.
◉ What are Pleadings?
Answer: A series of statements that give notice and establish the
issues of fact and law presented and disputed.
◉ What is a Complaint?
Answer: The initial pleading by the plaintiff stating the case.
◉ What is a Summons?
Answer: A notice given to inform a person of a lawsuit against
him/her.
◉ What is an Answer?
Answer: The defendant's pleading in response to the plaintiff's
complaint.
◉ What is a Reply?
Answer: A plaintiff's pleading in response to the defendant's
Answer.
GOVERNANCE MODULE ASSESSMENT
SCRIPT ITEMS ANSWERS PROFESSIONAL
RESPONSIBILITY REVIEW 2026
◉ What are Special State Courts?
Answer: Trial courts, such as probate courts and family courts,
having jurisdiction over a particular area of state law.
◉ What are Appellate Courts?
Answer: State courts that include one or two levels; the highest
court's decisions are final except in those cases reviewed by the U.S.
Supreme Court.
◉ What is Subject Matter Jurisdiction?
Answer: The authority of a court to decide a particular case.
◉ What is Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction?
Answer: Federal courts have sole jurisdiction over Federal crimes,
bankruptcy, antitrust, patent, trademark, copyright, and other
specified cases.
,◉ What is Concurrent Federal Jurisdiction?
Answer: When both state and federal courts have jurisdiction over a
case; Federal and State courts have concurrent jurisdiction over 1.)
Federal question cases that do not involve exclusive Federal
jurisdiction and 2.) diversity of citizenship cases involving more
than $75,000
◉ State courts have exclusive jurisdiction over all matters to which
the Federal judicial power:
Answer: does not reach
◉ What is Jurisdiction Over The Parties?
Answer: The power of the court to bind the parties to a suit.
◉ What is In Personam Jurisdiction?
Answer: Jurisdiction based upon claims against a person, in contrast
to jurisdiction over the person's property.
◉ What is In Rem Jurisdiction?
Answer: Jurisdiction based on claims against property.
◉ What is Attachment Jurisdiction?
Answer: Jurisdiction over a defendant's property to obtain payment
to a claim not related to the party.
, ◉ What is Venue?
Answer: Geographic area in which a lawsuit should be brought.
◉ What are Pleadings?
Answer: A series of statements that give notice and establish the
issues of fact and law presented and disputed.
◉ What is a Complaint?
Answer: The initial pleading by the plaintiff stating the case.
◉ What is a Summons?
Answer: A notice given to inform a person of a lawsuit against
him/her.
◉ What is an Answer?
Answer: The defendant's pleading in response to the plaintiff's
complaint.
◉ What is a Reply?
Answer: A plaintiff's pleading in response to the defendant's
Answer.
