Administrative
Law -
the area of law dealing with governmental agencies.
Admiralty
Law/ Maritime - the area of law that relates to the high seas and
other navigable waters, which is administered by the admiralty courts.
Adoption
Law - the area of law that deals with the relationship of parent to
child of another person, usually a minor, by official legal action.
Agriculture
Law - the area of law focusing on issues relating to the practice
of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and /or
the preparation and marketing of the resulting products.
Alternative
Dispute Resolution - a mechanism for resolving disputes that exists
outside the state or federal judicial system (see also arbitration and
mediation).
Intellectual
Property/Technology - a mechanism for resolving disputes that exists
outside the state or federal judicial system specifically relating to
an idea, invention, trade secret, process, program, data, formula, patent,
copyright, or trademark or application, right, or registration (often
times referred to as copyright, patent or trademark law). (see also arbitration
and mediation).
Utility/Telecom
Interconnection - a mechanism for resolving disputes that exists outside
the state or federal judicial system specifically dealing with issues
of communications at a distance (see also arbitration and mediation).
Antitrust
& Trade Regulation - the area of law that protects trade and commerce
from unlawful restraints and monopolies or unfair business practices.
Arbitration
- the process of resolving a dispute or a grievance outside of the court
system by presenting it to an impartial third party or panel for a decision
that may or may not be binding (see also mediation and alternative dispute
resolution).
Appellate Law - the area of law relating to appeals to higher courts
of law.
uto Lemon
Law - the area of law governed by statute that allows the purchaser
of a car specific remedies if the car has a defect that impairs or significantly
affects its use, value, or safety and that cannot be repaired within a
specified period.
Aviation
Law - the area of law dealing with the operation of civilian aircraft
often under the control of a common carrier. This legal arena usually
focuses on airline disasters and wrongful death.
Banking
& Finance Law - the area of law that relates to the banking and
finance industries.
Bankruptcy
Law - the legal method for a debtor to "discharge" or relieve
debt. Bankruptcy is a way for individuals or businesses owing more money
than they can pay to either work out a plan to repay the money over time
or to have their debt wiped out. While no debtor is guaranteed a total
discharge, most debtors who file for bankruptcy are given such relief.
One of the primary purposes of the bankruptcy act is to relieve the honest
debtor from the weight of oppressive indebtedness and to provide the debtor
with a fresh start. Title 11 of the United States Code regulates the filing
of a bankruptcy. If the debtor initiates the bankruptcy it is called a
voluntary bankruptcy. If the creditor initiates the bankruptcy it is called
an involuntary bankruptcy. In an involuntary bankruptcy the debtor has
the opportunity to contest the petition. While the debtor is either working
out a plan or the trustee is gathering the available assets to sell, the
Bankruptcy Code provides that creditors must stop all collection efforts
against the debtor. The Bankruptcy Code regulates what chapter you must
file under, what bills can be eliminated, how long payments may be extended,
what possessions you may keep, and all other details concerning the bankruptcy.
Alternatives
to Bankruptcy - the area of law that focuses on debtor assistance
other than Bankruptcy (see bankruptcy).
Business
Law - the area of law that involves the creation and needs of "business".
Business can be any activity or enterprise entered into for profit, usually
a company, a corporation, partnership, or any such formal organization
(see corporate law).
Catastrophic
Law - the area of law dealing with serious personal injury (see personal
injury).
Civil
Law - dealing with all areas of the law that are not classified as
criminal.
Civil
Rights - the area of law protecting those rights guaranteed by the
Bill of Rights, the 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, including
the right to due process, equal treatment under the law of all people
regarding enjoyment of life, liberty, property, and protection.
Class
Action - an action or actions in which a representative plaintiff
sues or a representative defendant is sued on behalf of a class (group)
of plaintiffs or defendants who have the same interests in the litigation
as their representative and whose rights or liabilities can be more efficiently
determined as a group than in a series of individual suits.
Collections
- the area of law that gives assistance to creditors in pursuing their
debtors.
Commercial
Law - the legal rules and principles bearing on commercial transactions
and business organizations. This area of the law is often times governed
by the Uniform Commercial Code.
Communications
Law - the area of law focusing on the technology of the transmission
of information.
Computer
& Technology Law - the area of law dealing with the scientific
technology involving the production or use of devices especially in the
fields of electronics and computers. Computers can be defined as programmable
electronic devices that can store, retrieve, and process data.
Condemnation/Eminent
Domain - the area of law that deals with the right of the government
to take property from a private owner for public use by virtue of the
superior dominion of its sovereignty over all lands within its jurisdiction.
Constitutional
Law - the area of statutory and case law that is based on, concerns,
or interprets a constitution.
Construction
Law - the area of law focusing on the construction industry.
Corporate
Law - the area of law focusing on the legal methods of obtaining an
official charter or articles of incorporation from the state for an organization,
which may be a profit-making business, a professional business such as
a law office or medical office or a non-profit entity which operates for
charitable, social, religious, civic or other public service purposes
and the legal ramifications of such an organization (see business law).
Consumer
Protection - the area of law that focuses on the remedies available
in most states and the federal government which have enacted laws and
set up agencies to protect the consumer from inferior, adulterated, hazardous
or deceptively advertised products, and deceptive or fraudulent sales
practices.
Criminal
Law - public law that deals with crimes and their prosecution. This
area of law is usually governed by statute or ordinance.