Attorney Study Guide 2026
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📋 Attorney Exam Format at a Glance
📚 Attorney Topics to Study (21)
✍️ Sample Attorney Questions & Answers
1. What is a guardian ad litem in family law proceedings?
A guardian ad litem is a court-appointed individual, often an attorney or trained volunteer, who investigates and advocates for a child's best interests in custody, abuse, or neglect cases.
2. What is the PERM labor certification process?
PERM (Program Electronic Review Management) requires employers to conduct a federally supervised recruitment process and prove no available qualified US workers were found before sponsoring a foreign worker for an EB-2 or EB-3 green card.
3. What is a material adverse change (MAC) clause in a merger agreement?
A MAC clause permits the buyer to terminate a deal if the target company experiences a significant adverse development — financial, operational, or otherwise — between signing and closing.
4. What is due diligence in a corporate transaction?
Due diligence is the process by which a buyer thoroughly investigates a target company's assets, liabilities, contracts, litigation, intellectual property, and operations before closing a transaction.
5. What is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)?
DACA is an executive program that grants renewable two-year deferrals from deportation and work authorization to eligible undocumented individuals who arrived in the US before age 16 and meet education or military service criteria.
6. What is asylum in US immigration law?
Asylum allows foreign nationals already in or at a US port of entry to remain in the US if they demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution in their home country based on one of five protected grounds.