Public records and second-tier exceptions — MCQs

Using only the supplied client file and legal resources, prepare a persuasive memorandum supporting the employee's motion in limine in a federal civil retaliation action. Address the admissibility of the internal complaint, the severance proposal, the coworker's contemporaneous log, and the manager's anticipated character evidence. Recommend any appropriate limiting instruction. Do not discuss claims or defenses other than their relevance to the evidentiary issues.

Using only the supplied client file and legal resources below (no outside authority or facts), prepare a persuasive motion-in-limine argument for the supervising attorney seeking admission of the dispatch recording and selected portions of the maintenance log. Address hearsay within hearsay, authentication, the opponent's principal objections, and any appropriate limitation on use.

You are a junior associate at a litigation firm representing the plaintiff in a slip-and-fall action against a restaurant. The supervising partner has asked you to draft an internal memorandum, addressed to the trial team, analyzing the admissibility of an incident report and the statements it contains that were made by two restaurant employees, Patel and Sam, as well as the report's author, Cho. Your memorandum should identify the relevant hearsay exceptions and non-hearsay theories, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each, and recommend a strategy for proving that the restaurant had notice of the hazardous condition. Review the attached client file (Exhibits A-D) and legal resources before drafting your response. Work product requested: a written legal memorandum (2-3 pages) with clear headings, addressing each embedded statement separately and concluding with a recommended litigation strategy.

Using only the supplied file and legal resources, prepare an objective memorandum assessing whether the three disputed documents are protected, whether NovaGen waived any protection through the production to opposing counsel, and what immediate steps counsel should take.

Using only the supplied file and legal resources, prepare a persuasive motion-in-limine argument addressing the admissibility of the post-accident guard, the pre-accident engineering email, and the settlement-conference statement. Request any appropriate limiting ruling rather than treating admissibility as an all-or-nothing issue.