Subjects Handled by the Legal Counsel Office
- Admissions
- Advertising
- Affiliation Agreements
- Affirmative Action
- Agency Issues
- Alcohol
- Alumni Relations
- Antitrust
- Arrests
- Assaults
- Athletics
- Automobiles
- Bailments
- Bankruptcy
- Battery
- Bonds
- Borrowing
- By-laws
- Cemeteries
- Civil rights
- Communications law (licensing, violations)
- Conflicts of interests
- Conflicts of law
- Consortiums
- Constitutional law-including
Federal: 1st Amendment-speech, association, assembly, religion.
4th Amendment-search, seizure
9th Amendment-privacy
l1th Amendment-federal jurisdiction immunity
14th Amendment-due process, equal protection - Contracts
- Construction
- Copyrights-grants and licenses, Fair Use, reproductions, registrations
- Corporations
- Criminal law
- Defamation
- Discrimination-students and employees
- Domicile-residency for tuition
- Drugs
- Due process
- Easements
- Employment-discrimination, termination, grievances, pensions, other benefits, wages, wage assignments, FLSA, Equal Pay Act, management prerogatives
- Equity
- Estates
- Facility Use
- False Arrests
- FERPA (Buckley Amendment)
- Financing statements
- Fraud
- Garnishments
- Gifts-tax consequences, documents, policies
- Governance
- Grievances and grievance procedures
- Guarantees
- Hazardous wastes and substances
- Human Subjects research
- Indemnity
- Independent contractors
- Immigration
- Injunctions
- Insurance
- Investments-statutory and other constraints
- Judgments
- Know-how: protecting technology
- Landlord/tenant-evictions, leases, regulations
- Legislation
- Libel
- Licensing
- Liens
- Limitations of actions
- Literary and artistic property
- Litigation
- Lobbying
- Malpractice
- Negligence
- Nuisance
- OSHA
- Open Meetings Act
- Parking
- Partition (real property)
- Partnerships
- Patents-ownership, licensing, infringement, misuse Pensions
- Placement and counseling
- Political activity
- Policies-drafting, redrafting, interpretation
- Pooled Income Funds
- Postal regulations
- Principal and agent
- Private foundations
- Privacy
- Privilege
- Process
- Promissory notes
- Property-real and personal
- Public Records
- Publishing
- Quiet title actions
- Regulations
- Releases
- Research
- Restitution
- Search and seizure
- SEC
- Secured transactions
- Securities
- Sexual harassment and discrimination
- Slander
- Social Security
- Solicitation (gifts)
- Statutes-drafting, interpreting
- Students-academic and disciplinary decisions, dismissals, discrimination, financial aid, grades, grievances, housing, organizations, residency, taxation of stipends/awards/fellowships, use of facilities
- Subpoenas
- Taxes-foreign, federal, state, city, income, estate, gift, excise, sales, use, Single Business Tax, property
- Torts
- Trademarks-use and registration
- Treaties-tax and other
- Trespass
- Truth-in-lending
- Trusts
- Umstead Act
- Unemployment compensation
- Unfair competition
- Uniform Commercial Code
- Unitrusts
- Unrelated business taxable income
- Use of facilities-peddling, religious groups, student groups, political activity
- Usury
- Utilities
- Wage and hour
- Waivers
- Warranties
- Wills and will contests
- Withholding taxes
- Witnesses and evidence
- Work Study
- Workers' Compensation
- Writs
- Wrongful death
- Zoning