Mpre Practice Questions

Applicant Boaz was an outstanding candidate for the bar who came from an excellent family. He had outstanding academic credentials in both undergraduate school and in law school, as well as an absolutely impeccable previous work experience. However, Boaz did have a little problem with speeding. In fact, his past driving record indicates that since obtaining a driver's license (10 years ago), Boaz has received 20 different speeding tickets (on average, about two per year) including two within the year immediately preceding the date of his application for admission to the bar. When filling out the sworn bar application, Boaz inadvertently omitted two of the total twenty prior speeding tickets (i.e., he simply had so many tickets to locate and report that somehow two tickets from his earliest driving years were inadvertently misplaced by Boaz and not included in the list). Would the bar committee be justified in denying -b. Yes, if the committee determines that, despite his unintentional omission of the two earliest speeding tickets on his bar application, Boaz's application (showing a total of 18 speeding tickets, two of which were received in the current year) nevertheless indicates Boaz's present disrespect for the authority of the law. Attorney Hobbs practices with several other lawyers in a small firm. He also owns a company that collects bad checks for local businesses. The check collection business is completely unrelated to Attorney Hobbs's practice of law. In the check collection business, Attorney Hobbs was convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the applicable wage and hour law. Based on the foregoing fact, is Attorney Hobbs subject to discipline? a. Attorney Hobbs is not subject to discipline because his conduct occurred in connection with his check collection business and not while engaging in the practice of law. b. Attorney Hobbs is not subject to discipline because lawyers can only be disciplined for felonious criminal acts. c. Attorney Hobbs may be subject to discipline if it is determined that he engaged in dishonesty or deceit. d. None of the above answers is correct. -c. Attorney Hobbs may be subject to discipline if it is determined that he engaged in dishonesty or deceit. Attorney Johnson represented Cliff who had been charged with the crime "cable theft" against the local television cable company. During the course of this representation, Johnson learned how Cliff was able to use a fairly simple technique to remove an electronic filter from inside the cable box that blocked certain portions of the cable signal, thus allowing the user to receive the full cable signal