Deck 12: Request for Documents

Question 1

Documents in the possession of a party's tax consultant do not have to be produced.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Secrecy of the competing airlines is ensured by a protective order or a confidentiality order.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Documents reflecting communications to and from both inside and outside counsel are afforded the attorney-client privilege.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Only original documents may be produced by the Jackson Municipal Airport Board.

Question 5

A reason that clients should not conduct a document search without someone from the law firm is that clients ________.

A) may not recognize attorney-client work product documents
B) may fail to recognize the documents they must produce
C) often do not comprehend the amount of time and effort involved in document production
D) All of these choices.

Question 6

A nonparty may be required to produce documents at his or her deposition.

Question 7

Federal rules do not permit litigants to scan paper documents for electronic storage.

Question 8

Rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure prohibits serving a formal request for document production before the parties have conferred as required under Rule 26.

Question 9

The secrecy of documents may be assured by ________.

A) a protective order
B) a confidentiality order
C) Either a or b.
D) None of these choices.

Question 10

In a document request, the following forms of ESI are discoverable: data stored in laptops, desktop PCs, PDAs, hard drives, mobile phones, fax machines, flash drives, digital cameras, and e-mail systems.

Question 11

Interrogatories are best used at an early stage in the discovery process to help an attorney determine what documents are available for a later document production request.

Question 12

Metadata frequently involves tracking records that log ________.

A) the person or persons who gathered the ESI
B) the technique used to gather the ESI
C) the goal of the compilation process
D) All of these choices.

Question 13

Metro, as a nonparty, may not be required to produce documents in this matter.

Question 14

The work product privilege is an absolute privilege and precludes production of documents in that category.

Question 15

The Jackson Municipal Airport Board may produce documents in lieu of answering a particular interrogatory.

Question 16

Documents may not be produced in lieu of answering a particular interrogatory.

Question 17

Documents must be produced ________.

A) in the order of the documents' dates
C) according to the categories specified in the document request
D) Either b or c.

Question 18

If Charter is served with a request for production of documents, the documents must be produced in date order.

Question 19

In a document request, which of the following forms of ESI are not discoverable?

A) Data stored on laptops
B) Data stored on desktop PCs
C) Data stored on portable hard drives
D) None of these choices.

Question 20

Only original documents can be produced.

Question 21

The documents that need not be produced, despite a request for documents, are known as ________ documents.

Question 22

Documents inadmissible at trial will ________.

A) not be produced
B) be produced
C) be produced if they are reasonably calculated to lead to admissible evidence
D) None of these choices.

Question 23

A log used to track documents is known as a(n) ________.

Question 24

Documents protected by a privilege are known as ________ documents.

Question 25

The process of deleting irrelevant or privileged information on a document before copying it for production is known as ________.

Question 26

Anything with letters, exhibits, or marks recorded on it is a(n) ________.

Question 27

A request by one party in a lawsuit to the other party to allow the first party access to documents that are relevant to a suit is known as a(n) ________.

Question 28

Desktop PCs, laptops, mobile phones, and PDAs are all included under the term ________.

Question 29

A discovery tool used to gain access to real property for inspection to obtain facts for a lawsuit is referred to as a(n) ________.

A) complaint
B) answer
C) demand for inspection
D) None of these choices.

Question 30

A log listing all documents identified as being protected from discovery under privilege is known as a(n) ________.

Question 31

The documents that must be produced by a request for documents are known as ________ documents.

Question 32

The term redact is synonymous with ________.

A) duplicate
B) delete
C) copy
D) replace

Question 33

A discovery technique that involves a request to enter property to inspect that property to obtain facts in relation to a lawsuit is known as a(n) ________.

Question 34

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure specify that the initial format choice for ESI in a document request is up to the ________.

A) ESI requester
B) ESI retriever
C) court
D) None of these choices.

Question 35

A type of document production is ________ production.

A) warehouse
B) broad
C) limited
D) All of these choices.