Codes: Canadian SALI Areas of Law |
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Draft Canada categories V 1.0 Date: 12-18-20 |
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Level 1 |
Level 2 and 3 |
Description IN PROGRESS |
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Banking
Law |
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Law that governs how banks and
other financial institutions conduct business. |
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Banking Operations |
Law governing routine banking
operations including bank capital requirements, risk management, etc. |
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Bank Secrecy and Anti-Money
Laundering |
Law regulating financial
institutions relating to money laundering. |
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Bankruptcy,
Insolvency and Restructuring |
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Laws relating to insolvent
individuals and companies. |
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Corporate Bankruptcy, Insolvency
and Restructuring |
Law relating to insolvency of
corporations. |
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Personal bankruptcy |
Law relating to debt relief for
individuals. |
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Constitutional
and Human Rights |
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Rights that protect individuals'
freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private
individuals. |
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Discrimination |
Protection from discrimination
on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, color,
age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability. |
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Individual |
Individual rights such as
privacy and the freedom of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and
movement. |
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Political |
Political rights include natural
justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused,
including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress
or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics
such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition,
the right of self-defense, and the right to vote. |
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Corporate
Law |
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Law that governs the formation
and operation of corporations. |
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Business Organizations |
Law governing the creation and
operation of businesses. |
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Corporate Governance |
Mechanisms, processes, and
relations by which corporations are controlled and operated. |
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Mergers and Acquisitions |
Law dealing with companies that
are purchasing and/or merging with other companies. |
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Private Equity, Hedge Funds and
Venture Capital |
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Commercial
Law |
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Law that applies to the rights,
relations, and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce,
merchandising, trade, and sales. |
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Franchise Law |
TBD |
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Commercial Transactions |
Law related to business
contracts and agreements. |
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Competition
and Trade Law |
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Admiralty and Maritime Law |
Law that governs nautical issues
and private maritime disputes. |
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Antitrust and Competition |
Law surrounding business
competition. |
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Consumer Protection |
TBD |
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Trade Law |
TBD |
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Criminal
Law |
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Law concerned with the
punishment of individuals who commit crimes. |
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Anti-Corruption |
Law addressing bribery of public
officials. |
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Asset Forfeiture |
Asset forfeiture or asset
seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the state. |
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Business and Financial Crimes |
Fraud, embezzlement, ponzi, etc.
False Claims Act. |
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Cybercrime |
Crimes committed using a
computer or directed at computers, data, or other information technology -
piracy, hacking, etc. |
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Organized Crime |
Law related to curtailing
organized crime. |
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Education
Law |
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The body of law that covers
teachers, schools, school districts, school boards, and the students they
teach. |
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Energy
Law |
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Law concerned with creating,
enforcing and challenging laws that regulate energy use. |
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Nuclear |
Law regulating nuclear power and
nuclear materials. |
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Oil and Gas |
Law pertaining to the
acquisition and ownership rights in oil and gas both under the soil before
discovery and after its capture, and adjudication regarding those rights. |
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Renewable Energy |
Laws pertaining to renewable
energy. |
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Hydroelectric Energy Law |
Laws pertaining to hydroelectric
power. |
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Solar Energy Law |
Laws pertaining to solar power. |
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Wind Power Law |
Law pertaining to wind power. |
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Sales and Transmission |
Law involving all aspects of the
economic regulation of energy utilities including electric utilities, power
generation and electric transmission, distribution of electricity, natural
gas, crude and petroleum, and coal. |
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Environmental
and Natural Resource Law |
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Law addressing environmental
pollution and natural resource management. |
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Air Quality |
Law governing the emission of
air pollutants into the atmosphere. |
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Contaminant Cleanup |
Law governing the removal of
pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, sediment,
surface water, or groundwater. |
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Chemical Safety |
Law governing the use of
chemicals in human activities, particularly man-made chemicals in modern
industrial applications. |
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Impact Assessment |
Assessment of the environmental
consequences (positive and negative) of a plan, policy, program, or actual
projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action. |
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Forest Resources |
Laws governing activities in
designated forest lands, most commonly with respect to forest management and
timber harvesting. |
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Fish and Game |
Laws regulating the right to
pursue and take or kill certain kinds of fish and wild animal (game). |
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Mineral Resources |
Laws covering the ownership of
the mineral resource and who can work them. |
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Water Quality |
Law governing the release of
pollutants into water resources. |
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Water Resources and Wetlands |
Laws governing the ownership and
use of water resources, including surface water and groundwater, oceans and
seas. |
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Wildlife and Plants |
Laws governing the potential
impact of human activity on wild animals or plants, whether directly on
individuals or populations, or indirectly via habitat degradation. |
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Waste Management |
Law governing the transport,
treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal
solid waste, hazardous waste, and nuclear waste. |
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Finance
and Lending |
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Law supporting the function of
providing loans or other financing to businesses or individuals. |
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Commercial Finance |
Law supporting the function of
providing loans or other financing to businesses. |
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Lender Liability |
Law which holds lender liable
for a borrower's financial losses that are directly or indirectly related to
the lender's actions. |
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Food
and Drug Law |
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Laws regulating food, drugs, and
cosmetics. |
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Gaming
Law |
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Law, rules, and regulations that
apply to the gaming or gambling industry. |
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Health
Law |
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Law, rules, regulations and
other jurisprudence among providers, payers and vendors to the health care
industry and its patients; and (2) delivery of health care services; all with
an emphasis on operations, regulatory and transactional legal issues. |
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Information,
Privacy and Data Security Law |
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Law regulating the protection of
information and information systems from unauthorized access |
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Cybersecurity |
Law and rules related to the
protection of information and information systems. |
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Government Access and Disclosure |
Law relating to the access and
disclosure of information by a government. |
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Privacy |
Laws regulating the storing, and
using of personally identifiable information of individuals. |
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Insurance
Law |
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Law surrounding insurance,
including insurance policies and claims. |
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Accident Benefits Law |
TBD |
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Disability Insurance Law |
TBD |
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Intellectual
Property And Technology |
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Law protecting the legal rights
to inventions, designs, and artistic works. |
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Copyright Law |
Laws intended to encourage the
creation of art and culture by rewarding authors and artists with a set of
exclusive rights. |
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Patent Law |
Law is designed to encourage
inventors to disclose their new technology to the world by offering the
incentive of a limited-time monopoly on the technology. |
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Trademark and Trade Dress Law |
Law protecting a business'
commercial identity or brand by or product design discouraging other
businesses from adopting a name, logo or design that is "confusingly
similar" to an existing trademark or design. |
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Trade Secret Law |
Law relating to trade secrets. |
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Labour
and Employment Law |
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Law relating to the relationship
between trade individuals, unions, employers and the government. |
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Human Rights |
Law relating to protected class
employment discrimination including retaliation and harassment |
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Occupational Health and Safety |
Law governing the health and
safety of employees. |
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Employment Immigration |
National statutes, and
regulations governing employment-based immigration into and deportation from
a country. |
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Labour Law |
Law relating to the relationship
between trade unions, employers and the government. |
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Pension and Benefits Law |
Law relating to retirement and
welfare benefit plans, with particular emphasis on benefits arrangements. |
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Unemployment Insurance |
Unemployment benefits refer to
those benefits given by the government to unemployed persons. |
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Emploment Standards |
Law that governs the wages rates
an employer can pay its employees, the hours for which an employer must
compensate its employees, child labor laws and meal and break laws. |
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Workplace Safety and Insurance |
Law addressing wage replacement
and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment. |
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Termination |
Law encompassing rules by which
an employer may terminate an employee. |
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Employment Contracts |
TBD |
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Employment Law |
TBD |
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Indepenent Contractors |
TBD |
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Pay Equity |
TBD |
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Municipal Law |
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TBD |
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Personal
and Family Law |
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Law that deals with family
matters and domestic relations. |
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Adoption, Surrogacy and
Paternity |
Laws relating to adoption,
surrogacy and paternity. |
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Custody Law |
TBD |
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Immigration Law |
National statutes, and
regulations governing immigration into and deportation from a country
including issues of naturalization and citizenship. |
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Juvenile Law |
Juvenile law and child
protective proceedings. |
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Matrimonial |
Laws relating to marriage, civil
unions, and domestic partnerships. |
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Probate |
TBD |
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Trusts and Estate Planning |
TBD |
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Public
and Administrative Law |
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Law which governs relationships
between individuals and the government, and the activities of administrative
agencies of government including rule making, adjudication, or the
enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. |
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Election Law |
Legal procedures and regulations
governing elections. |
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Government Contracts |
Laws relating to contracts in
which the government is a party. |
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Indigenous People's Law |
Legal procedures and regulations
that are specific to indigenous peoples' rights. |
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Military and Veterans Law |
Legal procedures and regulations
specific to the military and veterans rights. |
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Public Finance |
Law including legislation and
regulations relating to the financial activities of government or public
sector organizations. |
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Public Policy and Government
Affairs |
Rules surrounding lobbying and
political advocacy. |
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Project Finance Law |
Legal procedures and regulations
specific to the development, equity and non-recourse debt financing,
construction, operation, and maintenance of major industrial and
infrastructure projects. |
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Public Health and Welfare |
Law relating to the authority of
the government at various jurisdictional levels to improve the health of the
general population within societal limits and norms. |
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Real
Property Law |
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Law that governs the various
forms of ownership and tenancy in real property. |
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Condominium Law |
TBD |
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Construction and Development |
Law dealing with matters
relating to building construction, engineering, and related fields. |
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Expropriation |
Law regulating the taking of
private land for public use. |
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Landlord & Tenant Law |
Law that details the rights and
duties of landlords and tenants |
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Land Use and Zoning Law |
Law regulating the subdivision,
use, and restriction of land. |
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Property Rights |
Law relating to the acquisition
and transfer of real property. |
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Securities
and Financial Instruments Law |
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Law covering transactions and
other dealings with securities including both federal- and state-level
regulation by purely governmental regulatory agencies, listing requirements
of exchanges, and rules of self-regulatory organizations. |
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Broker-Dealer |
Law surrounding individuals
engaged in effecting transactions in securities for others or for their own
account. |
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Commodities |
Law governing commodities and
futures trading activities. |
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Derivatives and Futures |
Law governing derivatives. |
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Exchanges |
Rules regarding market places or
facilities for bringing together purchasers and sellers of securities. |
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Investment Advisor |
Rules regarding investment
adviser duties and responsibilities. |
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Investment Companies |
Regulations on companies that
engage primarily in investing, reinvesting, and trading in securities, and
whose own securities are offered to the investing public. |
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Security Offerings and Capital
Markets |
Corporate debt and equity
issuance (public and private) and markets. |
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Structured Finance |
Law surrounding securitization
and asset-backed securities. |
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Tax and
Revenue Law |
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Law which deals with the
constitutional, common-law, statutory, tax treaty, and regulatory rules that
constitute the law applicable to taxation. |
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Estates, Gifts, and Trusts |
Laws regulating estate or
personal planning and administration. |
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Non-Profit and Exempt
Organizations |
Laws that govern non-profit and
charitable organizations operations and management. |
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Tax |
Federal, State, and Local tax
laws. |
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Telecommunications
Law |
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Laws regulating
telecommunications and broadcasting. |
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Telecommunication Utilites |
Laws regulating
telecommunications and broadcasting utilities. |
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Personal
Injury and Torts |
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Law which allows an injured
person to obtain compensation from the person who caused the injury. |
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Assault |
Law relating to inflicting
physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or a threat or
attempt to commit such an action. |
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Defamation |
The action of damaging the good
reputation of someone; slander or libel. |
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Fraud and Economic Torts |
The wrong done by another person
or business that occurs in, or affects, commerce. |
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Negligence |
Failure to exercise the care
that a reasonably prudent person or professional, in the case of professional
negligence, would exercise in like circumstances and the harm caused by those
actions. |
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Malpractice |
TBD |
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Product Liability |
Law relating to liability for
injuries caused by defective or unsafe products. |
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Transportation
Law |
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Law involving transportation
infrastructure and all forms of road, railway, water and air transport. |
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Aviation Law |
Law that concerns flight, air
travel, and associated legal and business concerns. |
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Motor Vehicle Law |
Law covering all the aspects of
registering and titling motor vehicles, and licensing drivers. |
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Railway Law |
Law that concerns railways and
associated legal and business concerns. |
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