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List of Latin Legal Terms

Lawyer Specializations

Find the right lawyer in a specialized field.


Administrative Law

Administrative law is about the procedures, regulation and operation of the government which include all aspects of daily activities.

Responsibility: Administrative law lawyers or constitutional law lawyers work in this field


Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Alternative Dispute Resolution is an alternative process of solving disputes outside court without litigation, with the goal of curbing the costs. It is a faster process and it is increasingly becoming popular.  

Responsibility: Any lawyer can be an ADR lawyer, usually it will be a  labor law lawyer.


Antitrust

Antitrust laws are intended to all protect consumers and the population from anti-competitive actions  and business practices. This includes patent misuse, monopolies, price fixing, and even  actions like forced group control actions and boycotting.

Responsibility: Lawyers specializing in antitrust law will do this work.


Business and Corporate Law

Business & Corporate law runs the full gamut of business actions, it includes everything from small town banking to major bankruptcies. Also included are business actions such as family businesses, community developments, contracts and many more. 

Responsibility: Business and corporate lawyers 


Corporate Compliance

 All companies and employees should follow and adhere to specific laws and regulations, standards and ethical practices to ensure that companies will not be exposed to legal actions such as fines, censure and even lawsuits.

 Responsibility: Business and corporate lawyers 

 

Criminal Law

Criminal Law covers all possible criminal acts and criminal issues and is handled by defense lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and legal minds such as law professors at major universities.

Responsibility: Criminal lawyers.


Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is the safeguard and protection of information and computer systems from infiltration, theft, manipulation and damage. 

Responsibility: Lawyers specializing in cybersecurity.


Ecommerce

Commercial transactions are conducted online, electronically through the services of the Internet, and it is creating and developing untested and new legal fields and challenges for most businesses, governments, and general consumers.

 Responsibility: Lawyers specializing in online transactions.


Environment

Environmental laws and other laws such as common law, customary laws, regulations and statutes, control the actions and effects of the population on nature, i.e. the natural environment that we live in.

Responsibility: Environmental law lawyers.


Family Law

Family law deals with matters concerning family life and relationships. This include engagements, marriage, relationships and partnerships, also adoption, elder rights including elder care .

Responsibility: Family law lawyers.


Health Care Law

The legislative, executive, and judicial rules and regulations that control and regulate the activities of the health care industry is the health care law.

 Responsibility: Health care law lawyers.


Intellectual Property

Intellectual property must be protected to keep its value and intellectual property law identify, secure and enforce legal ownership, copyright as well as legal rights to designs, works of art, inventions, designs and more.

Responsibility: Intellectual property law lawyers


International Law

International Law is the body of rules that govern International relations and ways countries deal with each other on a daily basis in a variety of ways.

Responsibility: International law lawyers


Litigation and Trails

Trial Practice involves the full trail process that includes litigation management, the pretrial, going to trial, and sometimes also appellate practice.

 Responsibility: Litigation lawyers, trail lawyers, lawyers from various specializations.


Labor and Employment

The rights and duties of employers and workers are set out by labor and employment laws. 

Responsibility: Labor law lawyers.


Mergers and Acquisitions

Merger and acquisition law governs transactions where the ownership of companies and businesses are involved in the form of mergers or transference.

Responsibility: Business lawyers, corporate lawyers and merger and acquisition law lawyers.


Real estate

Real estate law controls land ownership and land usage.

Responsibility: Real estate and mortgage lawyers


Solo Practice

Solo practice lawyers set up their own practices and work independently without other lawyers in their firms. They usually have paralegals and administrative staff.

Responsibility: Solo practice lawyers in a variety of legal fields.


Taxation Law

Taxation laws govern comprehensive and complex rules concerning taxation on when a person or company has to pay or don't have to pay taxes.

Responsibility: Tax lawyers, taxation lawyers.


Tort Law

Tort laws govern non-criminal acts causing injury, unfair loss, suffering and other harmful acts.

Responsibility: Tort lawyers.


Trusts and Estates

Trust and Estate laws protect the assets of a person during his or her lifetime and these laws also deal with the  distribution of assets after his or her death. 

Responsibility: Trust and estate lawyers.


Reference: American Bar Association