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FIELDS OF PRACTICE
Administrative law is the body of law that governs the activities of administrative agencies of government, which may include rulemaking, adjudication, or the enforcement of a specific regulatory agenda. As a body of law, adminstrative law deals with the decision-making of adminstrative units of goverment.
Administrative Law
Corporate law involves the formation, dissolution, and all other legal aspects of the administration of corporations. Typical duties of corporate lawyers include mergers, acquisitions, internal reorganization, or disputes between corporations and individuals concerning liability, patents, and compliance with state and federal law, as well as international accords. A legal professional whose sole client is a corporation is generally known as in-house counsel.
Business (Corporate) Law
Contract Law
Since the law of contracts is at the heart of most business dealings, it is one of the three or four most significant areas of legal concern and can involve variations on circumstances and complexities.
Family Law
Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related matters and domestic relations, including: marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; adoption and surrogacy, child abuse, child abduction, the terminations of relationships and ancillary matters, including divorce, annulment, property settlements, alimony, cild custody and visitation, child support and alimony awards.
Personal injury law deals with intentional or unintentional wrongdoing that affects individuals physically or psychologically. Experts in the field are well-versed in torts law and may work on cases involving medical malpractice, accidental collisions, product liability, wrongful death, or workplace injury. Many cases are settled out of court in this field of legal practice.
Personal Injury
An appeal is a formal request to a higher court to review and examine the procedure or decision of a lower court or administrative agency/body.
Appellate Law
Civil rights law aims to balance competing interests between institutions of government on the one hand and individuals or groups of individuals on the other. Lawyers in such practice may work on cases involving discrimination and unfair practices that infringe on rights and liberties such as expression, employment, housing, education, or other entitlements.
Civil Rights Law
Employement Law
The body of law that governs the employer-employee relationship, including individual employment contracts, the application of tort and contract doctrines, and a large group of statutory regulation on issues such as the right to organize and negotiate collective bargaining agreements, protection from discrimination, wages and hours, and health and safety.​
International Taxation
International law is broad in its conception and can be broken down into private and public sectors. In the private sector, specialists in international law may work in finance and trade divisions of multinational corporations. In the public international law, practitioners would work on cases that involve dealings between sovereign nations. Both private and public international law are interdisciplinary in nature and would involve an understanding of the differences between common law and civil law systems across borders.​
Trust and Estates
Estate trust is a trust established by one spouse for the benefit of the surviving spouse. Such trusts are also established for qualifying a deceased spouse's property for the marital deduction. In estate trusts, the assets of the estate trust are paid to the estate of the surviving spouse if the donor provides that, at the surviving spouse's death, any accumulated income and remaining principal must be distributed to the surviving spouse’s estate.
U.S. Bankruptcy law applies to the insolvency problems of individuals as well as organizations and business entities. This type of law issues directly from the Constitution and is in the domain of Federal law, though State laws have an important effect on bankruptcy procedure. Legal practitioners in this field are experts in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, which is a subset of the United States Code.
Bankruptcy
Criminal law focuses on behaviors that are sanctioned under criminal code and defined as illegal. Prosecutors and District Attorneys sanction illegal behavior, while criminal defense lawyers represent clients accused of criminal activity. Both prosecution and defense professionals deal with issues of individual liberty, basic rights, and responsibilities. In some Common Law countries other than the U.S., and in most Civil Law countries, the roles of a prosecutor (or procurator) and defense lawyer (or advocate) are separated more clearly into different professional specialties.
Criminal Law
Environmental Law
Environmental law concerns a multitude of statutes, treaties, regulations, and conventions based in state, federal, or transnational law. Legal professionals practicing in this field may represent government agencies, advocacy organizations, or individuals. Environmental lawyers often focus on cases involving natural resource management, the curbing of pollution, or disputes about land and littoral use. Public health components are increasingly common in the practice of environmental law.
Real Estate law involves land or construction ownership, development, litigation, tenant rights, or landlord disputes. Attorneys in this field may work on residential or commercial transactions, review contracts, or work in planning and other government offices.