MS Bar Multistate Performance 3

Question 1

The MPT File contains a witness transcript with statements that contradict your client's account. The best approach is to:

Accepted Answer

Acknowledge the unfavorable facts and address them in your analysis

Answer

Omit the contradictory statements from your answer entirely

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Assume the transcript is unreliable and disregard it

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Invent additional facts that resolve the contradiction

Question 2

Which document in an MPT packet tells you the specific assignment, audience, and format required?

Accepted Answer

The task memorandum from the supervising attorney

Answer

The table of contents of the Library

Answer

The first case in the Library

Answer

The client engagement letter in the File

Question 3

An MPT statute in the Library has three numbered elements, but the Library cases interpret only two of them. What should you do about the third element?

Accepted Answer

Analyze it using the statutory text and the File facts

Answer

Skip it because no case discusses it

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State that the element cannot be analyzed without more law

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Rely on your memory of real-world case law to fill the gap

Question 4

How many MPT items appear on the Uniform Bar Examination administered in Mississippi?

Accepted Answer

Two

Answer

One

Answer

Three

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Four

Question 5

You are asked to draft an objective memorandum. Your research shows the client will likely lose. You should:

Accepted Answer

State the likely unfavorable outcome candidly with supporting analysis

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Conclude in the client's favor to show advocacy skills

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Refuse to reach any conclusion

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Recommend the firm decline representation

Question 6

Which of the following formats has appeared as an MPT task besides briefs and memos?

Accepted Answer

A client letter

Answer

A multiple-choice questionnaire

Answer

A law review article

Answer

A bar complaint against opposing counsel

Question 7

In the MPT's fictional jurisdiction, the state of Franklin is located within which fictional federal circuit?

Accepted Answer

The Fifteenth Circuit

Answer

The Fifth Circuit

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The First Circuit

Answer

The Federal Circuit