Deck 3: Technology in the Law Office and the Courts

Question 1

Duplicates of digital documents may be deleted in electronic discovery but may not be redacted for privileged information and attorney work product.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Metadata is not visible to anyone other than the document creator and need not be removed from a document .

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A company that executes its routine destruction of electronically stored information may use this policy as a reason for unavailability of electronically stored data.It may be a defense to sanctions for destruction of records.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Document management software aids in the naming, organization and storage of the numerous electronic documents created in a law practice for use in current and subsequent cases.

Question 5

Although certification of the transcript is required, real-time court reporting allows immediate visual display of transcripts.

Question 6

Security procedures in the use of technology include

A)Encryption.
B)Passwords.
C)Secure firewalls.
D)All of the above.

Question 7

Database management software such as Microsoft's Access creates records in a database that can be sorted, searched, filtered and reported.

Question 8

Spoliation rules apply to a duty to preserve electronically stored information when litigation is anticipated as well as once it commences.

Question 9

Litigation support software is used mainly to handle contacts, calendars, conflicts of interest checks, and other practice management tools.

Question 10

Electronic legal research includes

A)Internet-based research.
B)Westlaw.
C)Lexis.
D)All of the above.

Question 11

Electronically stored information must not be included in a discovery requests.

Question 12

Electronic filings procedures requires that pleadings can be modified by others appearing in the case.

Question 13

Which of the following is used to file pleadings and view filed documents in federal cases ?

A)Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
B)Case Management/Electronic Case Filing (CM/ECF)
C)E-Courts
D)All of the above.

Question 14

Which of the following is included in a suite of software application such as Microsoft Office?

A)Word-processing software.
B)Spreadsheet software.
C)Presentation graphics software.
D)All of the above are included in generic software suites.