MPRE LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
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✔✔Who can be partners in a law firm? - ✔✔Only lawyer can be partners, or officers if
we're dealing with a corporation, if any part of the partnership business is the practice of
law.
Except: Shareholders and it's only temporary by operation of law.
✔✔Relationship of the Dual Profession Lawyer with Non-Lawyers - ✔✔* Dual
Professions: It's okay
BUT, you can't you your dual to solicit legal business.
Attorney/client privilege does not apply in the dual profession.
✔✔Law related services - ✔✔OK to provide services reasonably performed in
conjunction with and related to legal services
Note: Non-legal and legal provided together: the rules apply to both.
✔✔Non-legal services provided by entity controlled by the lawyer - ✔✔Lawyer must
assure that client knows of their interest and that it is not legal services. Failure to do so
will mean: the rules apply to everything.
✔✔Restrictions on the right to practice - ✔✔Generally: Can't do it
Exceptions:
1) Retirement
2) To settle a claim between firm and attorney
✔✔Lawyer's ability to reject cases - ✔✔Generally: Lawyer's have general freedom to
reject cases.
Exceptions:
Lawyer SHOULD take clients who are "Defenseless or oppressed."
Lawyers SHOULD do their "Fair share" of pro bono (50 hours per year recommended).
✔✔Appointments - ✔✔Lawyer MUST take those cases, Except:
1) unreasonable financial burden
,✔✔Duty to reject cases - ✔✔1) Physical or mental inability
2) Conflict of Interest
3) Frivolous claim or defense
4) Strong feelings or bias
5) Incompetence/Lack the legal expertise
EXCEPTIONS (ALE):
A) Associate w/ an expert
L) Learn it
E) Emergency
✔✔What decisions belong to the client? - ✔✔Whether to:
1) Sue
2) Settle (Must inform client of all settlement offers unless client has specifically and
with informed consent authorized a specific rejection or acceptance range.)
3) Testify (in a criminal case)
4) Plea
5) Jury/bench
6) Appeal
✔✔Procedural and tactical decisions belonging to the attorney (law, tactics, and
strategy). - ✔✔1) Which Court to file in
2) Depositions (Do we take?/Not Take?)
3) Discovery (Whether and what to seek/produce)
4) Continuances - whether to request or grant a request
(Client can always veto when it comes to cost)
✔✔Do client decisions shift to lawyer when that client is a minor or under diminished
capacity? - ✔✔No, the lawyer must get a guardian appointed
✔✔Termination of the Client-Lawyer Relationship - ✔✔When matter is in litigation, need
court permission and must return client's property, including the case file and unused
portion of the retainer.
The judge's decision is often affect by the particular stage of the matter when the
withdrawal is sought.
✔✔Mandatory Withdrawal - ✔✔1) Client fraud and refusal to rectify
2) Client "insists" on violation of law or ethical provision
3) Client has begun an illegal course of action
✔✔Permissive Withdrawel - ✔✔1) can be for ANY REASON where there's no material
harm to client, or
2) If client consents, or
, 3) Where one of these conditions is met:
-Client persists in criminal or fraudulent conduct
-client has used attorney's services to commit past crime or fraud
-clients objective is repugnant or imprudent
-Client breaks promise to lawyer to pay the fee
- unreasonable financial hardship for attorney's practice
-client will not cooperate
*But cannot abandon client. Must take the proper steps to avoid material adverse effect
on client
✔✔Client - lawyer contracts - ✔✔Lawyer can limit representation
Basic rules of Contract construction apply
✔✔Factors in setting a reasonable fee - ✔✔1) Time and Labor
2) Difficulty and Novelty of Questions
3) Experience, Reputation and abilities
4) Relationships: Nature and length
5) Exclusions (whether lawyer must turn away other cases if client knows of this)
6) Fixed or contingent (contingent can be higher)
7) Fee Customarily Charged
✔✔Contingent Fees - ✔✔Must be reasonable, Signed by client,
Must not use in criminal cases
-No percentage of publication rights based upon representation until the case is over,
appeals and all
Must not use in domestic relations cases (Past due support payments ARE DEBT AND
THEREFORE OKAY).
Contingent fee must be explained - in writing and must notify the client of any expenses
for which they are liable, whether or not the client wins the case
-Before you take the case
-After the case is concluded (settlement Letter)
✔✔Buying/Selling Law Practice - ✔✔Can only sell the ENTIRE field of practice
Seller must exercise competence in identifying a competent purchaser.
Written Notice must be given to seller's clients regarding:
1) The sale
2) Clients' right to get their files returned
3) Clients' right to get new counsel
4) consent will be presumed if the client take no action within 90 days of the receipt of
the notice. If notice cannot be given for some reason, then a court order is required to
authorize the transfer of the representation.
RATED A+
U
✔✔Who can be partners in a law firm? - ✔✔Only lawyer can be partners, or officers if
we're dealing with a corporation, if any part of the partnership business is the practice of
law.
Except: Shareholders and it's only temporary by operation of law.
✔✔Relationship of the Dual Profession Lawyer with Non-Lawyers - ✔✔* Dual
Professions: It's okay
BUT, you can't you your dual to solicit legal business.
Attorney/client privilege does not apply in the dual profession.
✔✔Law related services - ✔✔OK to provide services reasonably performed in
conjunction with and related to legal services
Note: Non-legal and legal provided together: the rules apply to both.
✔✔Non-legal services provided by entity controlled by the lawyer - ✔✔Lawyer must
assure that client knows of their interest and that it is not legal services. Failure to do so
will mean: the rules apply to everything.
✔✔Restrictions on the right to practice - ✔✔Generally: Can't do it
Exceptions:
1) Retirement
2) To settle a claim between firm and attorney
✔✔Lawyer's ability to reject cases - ✔✔Generally: Lawyer's have general freedom to
reject cases.
Exceptions:
Lawyer SHOULD take clients who are "Defenseless or oppressed."
Lawyers SHOULD do their "Fair share" of pro bono (50 hours per year recommended).
✔✔Appointments - ✔✔Lawyer MUST take those cases, Except:
1) unreasonable financial burden
,✔✔Duty to reject cases - ✔✔1) Physical or mental inability
2) Conflict of Interest
3) Frivolous claim or defense
4) Strong feelings or bias
5) Incompetence/Lack the legal expertise
EXCEPTIONS (ALE):
A) Associate w/ an expert
L) Learn it
E) Emergency
✔✔What decisions belong to the client? - ✔✔Whether to:
1) Sue
2) Settle (Must inform client of all settlement offers unless client has specifically and
with informed consent authorized a specific rejection or acceptance range.)
3) Testify (in a criminal case)
4) Plea
5) Jury/bench
6) Appeal
✔✔Procedural and tactical decisions belonging to the attorney (law, tactics, and
strategy). - ✔✔1) Which Court to file in
2) Depositions (Do we take?/Not Take?)
3) Discovery (Whether and what to seek/produce)
4) Continuances - whether to request or grant a request
(Client can always veto when it comes to cost)
✔✔Do client decisions shift to lawyer when that client is a minor or under diminished
capacity? - ✔✔No, the lawyer must get a guardian appointed
✔✔Termination of the Client-Lawyer Relationship - ✔✔When matter is in litigation, need
court permission and must return client's property, including the case file and unused
portion of the retainer.
The judge's decision is often affect by the particular stage of the matter when the
withdrawal is sought.
✔✔Mandatory Withdrawal - ✔✔1) Client fraud and refusal to rectify
2) Client "insists" on violation of law or ethical provision
3) Client has begun an illegal course of action
✔✔Permissive Withdrawel - ✔✔1) can be for ANY REASON where there's no material
harm to client, or
2) If client consents, or
, 3) Where one of these conditions is met:
-Client persists in criminal or fraudulent conduct
-client has used attorney's services to commit past crime or fraud
-clients objective is repugnant or imprudent
-Client breaks promise to lawyer to pay the fee
- unreasonable financial hardship for attorney's practice
-client will not cooperate
*But cannot abandon client. Must take the proper steps to avoid material adverse effect
on client
✔✔Client - lawyer contracts - ✔✔Lawyer can limit representation
Basic rules of Contract construction apply
✔✔Factors in setting a reasonable fee - ✔✔1) Time and Labor
2) Difficulty and Novelty of Questions
3) Experience, Reputation and abilities
4) Relationships: Nature and length
5) Exclusions (whether lawyer must turn away other cases if client knows of this)
6) Fixed or contingent (contingent can be higher)
7) Fee Customarily Charged
✔✔Contingent Fees - ✔✔Must be reasonable, Signed by client,
Must not use in criminal cases
-No percentage of publication rights based upon representation until the case is over,
appeals and all
Must not use in domestic relations cases (Past due support payments ARE DEBT AND
THEREFORE OKAY).
Contingent fee must be explained - in writing and must notify the client of any expenses
for which they are liable, whether or not the client wins the case
-Before you take the case
-After the case is concluded (settlement Letter)
✔✔Buying/Selling Law Practice - ✔✔Can only sell the ENTIRE field of practice
Seller must exercise competence in identifying a competent purchaser.
Written Notice must be given to seller's clients regarding:
1) The sale
2) Clients' right to get their files returned
3) Clients' right to get new counsel
4) consent will be presumed if the client take no action within 90 days of the receipt of
the notice. If notice cannot be given for some reason, then a court order is required to
authorize the transfer of the representation.
