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.

Auto 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.