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10 free, exam-style Core Registered Paralegal (CRP) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free CRP practice test to study every exam domain.

The CRP exam has 125 questions and runs 2 hours 30 minutes.

These 10 free CRP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Core Registered Paralegal blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.

Domain 1: Paralegal Practice 52% of exam

Question 1

A long-standing client telephones the firm and asks the paralegal whether he should accept the $40,000 settlement the defendant has just offered. The supervising attorney is in court for the rest of the day. How should the paralegal respond?

  1. Recommend that he accept it, since $40,000 is a reasonable outcome for a claim of this kind
  2. Explain that the attorney will advise him on the offer, and note the deadline to respond
  3. Tell the client the decision is his alone, so he should simply do whatever feels right to him
  4. Advise him to reject it and hold out, because the first offer is rarely the defendant's best
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Correct answer: B - Explain that the attorney will advise him on the offer, and note the deadline to respond

Question 2

During discovery, opposing counsel demands production of an email in which the client described how the accident happened to his own attorney. The firm objects. The protection that MOST directly shields this email from compelled disclosure is:

  1. The attorney-client privilege
  2. The paralegal's ethical duty of confidentiality
  3. The work-product doctrine
  4. The duty of loyalty owed to the client
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Correct answer: A - The attorney-client privilege

Question 3

A paralegal working in Westlaw needs to confirm that a key precedent has not been reversed or overruled and to retrieve later cases that have cited it. The paralegal should use:

  1. Shepard's
  2. The West Key Number System
  3. Black's Law Dictionary
  4. KeyCite
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Correct answer: D - KeyCite

Question 4

When analyzing a legal problem with the IRAC method, after identifying the issue and stating the applicable rule, the next step is to:

  1. State the conclusion the court is most likely to reach
  2. Apply the rule to the specific facts of the matter
  3. Cite the primary authority that supports the rule
  4. Distinguish any persuasive authority decided in other jurisdictions
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Correct answer: B - Apply the rule to the specific facts of the matter

Question 5

A litigation team wants a party's answers to a fixed set of written questions, responded to in writing and under oath, without the cost of a court reporter or live testimony. The MOST appropriate discovery device is:

  1. A deposition
  2. A request for production
  3. An interrogatory
  4. A request for admission
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Correct answer: C - An interrogatory

Question 6

A complaint is filed in a court that has authority to hear this type of dispute and power over the parties, but under the applicable rules the case has been filed in the wrong county. The defect in the filing relates to:

  1. Venue
  2. Standing
  3. Personal jurisdiction
  4. Subject-matter jurisdiction
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Correct answer: A - Venue

Domain 2: Substantive Areas of Law 48% of exam

Question 7

A homeowner orally agrees to sell a parcel of land to a neighbor, who pays a deposit on the spot. The homeowner later refuses to go through with the sale. The neighbor's biggest obstacle to enforcing the agreement is that:

  1. No consideration was ever exchanged between the parties
  2. An oral contract is never legally binding under any circumstances
  3. The deposit is treated as liquidated damages and ends the contract
  4. Contracts for the sale of land must generally be in writing to be enforceable
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Correct answer: D - Contracts for the sale of land must generally be in writing to be enforceable

Question 8

A jury finds that a plaintiff suffered $100,000 in damages but was 30% at fault for the accident. In a pure comparative negligence jurisdiction, the plaintiff will recover:

  1. Nothing, because the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to the injury
  2. $70,000
  3. $100,000
  4. $30,000
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Correct answer: B - $70,000

Question 9

A property owner grants the neighboring landowner the right to cross her driveway to reach a public road. This right is BEST described as:

  1. A lien
  2. A restrictive covenant
  3. An easement
  4. A leasehold
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Correct answer: C - An easement

Question 10

Two people are starting a business together. They want protection from personal liability for the business's debts, and they also want profits and losses to pass through to their individual tax returns so the business is not taxed separately at the entity level. The entity that BEST meets both goals is:

  1. A limited liability company (LLC)
  2. A general partnership
  3. A C corporation
  4. A sole proprietorship
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Correct answer: A - A limited liability company (LLC)

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