List of Subjects on which the Office of Legal Affairs Provides Advice

Note: This list is illustrative and is not exhaustive. 

Specific areas of practice for each attorney are listed here: Practice Areas of Attorneys in Office of Legal Affairs

• Administrative Law
• Admissions
• Advertising
• Affiliation Agreements
• Affirmative Action
• Agency Issues
• Alcohol
• Alumni Relations
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Antitrust
• Arrests
• Assaults
• Athletics
• Bailments
• Bankruptcy
• Battery
• Bonds
• Borrowing
• By-laws
• Cemeteries
• Civil Rights
• Classified Research
• Coach Contracts
• Communications law (licensing, violations)
• Conflicts of Interest
• Conflicts of Law
• Consortiums
• Constitutional law, including:
  • 1st Amendment--speech, association, assembly, religion.
  • 4th Amendment--search, seizure
  • 9th Amendment--privacy
  • 11th Amendment--federal jurisdiction immunity
  • 14th Amendment--due process, equal protection
• Contracts
• Construction
• Copyrights--grants and licenses, fair use, reproductions, registrations, enforcement (DMCA)
• Corporations
• Criminal Law
• Defamation
• Development
• Discipline--students and employees
• Discrimination--students and employees
• Drugs--testing, abuse
• Due Process
• Easements
• EEOC cases
• Employment--EPA, SPA, faculty, discrimination, termination, grievances, pensions, benefits, wages, FLSA, Equal Pay Act, FMLA
• Equity
• Estates
• Exports
• Facility Use
• Faculty Issues--employment, tenure, hearings, discipline
• False Arrests
• FERPA (privacy of student records)
• Financing statements
• Fraud
• Garnishments
• Gifts--tax consequences, documents, policies
• Governance
• Grievances and Grievance Procedures
• Guarantees
• Hazardous wastes and substances
• Hearings and Hearing Procedures
• HIPAA--privacy and security regulations
• Human Subjects Research
• Indemnity
• Independent Contractors
• Immigration
• Information Security
• Injunctions
• Insurance
• Intellectual Property (see Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks)
• International Programs--Education Abroad
• Internet
• Investments--statutory and other constraints
• Judgments
• Know-how: protecting technology
• Landlord/tenant--evictions, leases, regulations
• Legislation
• Libel
• Library
• Licensing
• Liens
• Litigation Management (through the Attorney General's Office)
• Lobbying
• Malpractice
• Motor Vehicles
• NCAA Compliance
• Negligence
• Nuisance
• Office for Civil Rights cases (OCR)
• OSHA
• Open Meetings Act
• Parking
• Partnerships
• Patents--ownership, licensing, infringement, misuse
• Pensions
• Personnel Records Act
• Placement and Counseling
• Planned Giving
• Political Activity
• Policies--drafting, redrafting, interpretation
• Pooled Income Funds
• Principal and Agent
• Private Foundations
• Privacy
• Promissory Notes
• Property--real and personal
• Public Records Act
• Public Relations
• Publishing
• Real Estate Transactions
• Regulations
• Releases and Waivers
• Research
• Restitution
• Search and Seizure
• SEC
• Secured Transactions
• Securities
• Sexual Harassment and/or Discrimination
• Slander
• Social Security
• Solicitation and Acceptance of Gifts
• Statutes--drafting, interpreting
• Statutory Compliance--state and federal
• Student Issues--academic and disciplinary hearings/decisions, dismissals, discrimination, financial aid, grades, grievances, housing, organizations, residency, taxation of stipends/awards/fellowships
• Subpoenas
• Taxes-foreign, federal, state, city, income, withholding, estate, gift, excise, sales, use, Single Business Tax, property
• Technology Transfer
• Tenure Policies, Regulations, and Procedures
• Torts
• Trademarks--use and registration, enforcement
• Treaties--tax and other
• Trespass
• Truth-in-lending
• Trusts
• Umstead Act
• Unemployment Compensation
• Unfair Competition
• Uniform Commercial Code
• Unitrusts
• Unrelated Business Taxable Income (UBIT)
• Use of facilities-peddling, religious groups, student groups, political activity
• Usury
• Utilities
• Venture Program
• Wage and Hour laws
• Waivers
• Warranties
• Wills
• Witnesses and Evidence
• Work Study
• Workers' Compensation
• Wrongful Death
• Zoning