Lawsuits which normally involve monetary damages, which distinguishes it from criminal, family, and probate (wills/trusts). Civil lawsuits are the vast majority of lawsuits that disputes between persons, businesses or government entities.
Civil lawsuits involving disputes between businesses or the persons involved in those business. Examples include breach of contract, trade secret, unfair competition, dissolution actions, and accounting actions.
Civil lawsuits involving disputes between businesses or the persons involved in those business. This can involve the laws of commerce and banking.
Includes agreements between already formed businesses, but also those agreements and documents necessary for a person or group to establish a business.
The application of the terms and provisions of a policy of insurance to a specific set of facts, normally a lawsuit.
The failure of a crop, or under performance of a crop due to other than natural causes, e.g., persons, chemicals.
Injury to person or damage to property as a result of a defective or dangerous product.
Damages to a structure as a result of failure in design, construction or materials.
Disputes between employees and employers over matters such as wages, break time, overtime, working conditions.
A type of civil litigation involving injuries, distinguished as arising from commercial or business activities, e.g., construction site accidents, industrial accidents.
Also called malpractice, this is an action where a professional has caused damage to another as a result of the manner in which professional services were provided.
Action concerning ownership of real property, boundary lines, purchase prices, warranties.
Action where an employee claims to have been wrongly fired or forced to quit due to workplace conditions.
The name given to those actions in which persons claim to be injured by chemicals which were made or spread by others.
The defense of a person involved in civil litigation in connection with a policy of insurance whose terms and provisions will pay all or a portion of the defense.
Injury and other damages to a person as a result of the wrong of a another, such as car accidents, slip and fall, dog bites
An action where the legal heirs of a deceased person can recover damages against those responsible for causing the death.
Actions involving injury and damage which arise from the manner in which some place is maintained or controlled, such as slipping on a wet floor in a business.
The system to compensate employees who are injured while they are working.
Claims against a governmental agency that it is responsible for injury or damage, such as a city not fixing a sidewalk that causes a person to trip and fall
Actions between Employees and Employers involving legal protections provided employees, which includes laws concerning harassment, discrimination, whistle blowing, wage and hour protection, disability accommodation.
Legal work to affirm or overturn a verdict or judgment made in a trial court, that involves writing legal briefs and making oral arguments.
The area of law that involves not just the manner and materials used to build structures, but often too the safety standards such as OSHA.