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Illustrative
List of Subjects on which the Office of General Counsel
Provides Advice
(Note:
This list is not exhaustive.)
- Administrative
Law
- Admissions
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Advertising
-
Affiliation Agreements
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Affirmative Action
-
Agency Issues
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Alcohol
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Alumni Relations
- Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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Antitrust
-
Arrests
-
Assaults
- Athletics
- Bailments
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Bankruptcy
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Battery
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Bonds
-
Borrowing
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By-laws
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Cemeteries
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Civil Rights
- Classified
Research
- Coach
Contracts
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Communications law (licensing, violations)
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Conflicts of Interest
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Conflicts of Law
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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
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