so yeah i knew family law wasn't for me but it there is sometimes some you
know some really juicy tea between people what's up you guys it's your girl
angela with the aspiring boss welcome back to my channel in today's Article i'm
going to be talking about different practice areas of law okay so i've noticed
that a lot of my subscribers are either in law school or aspiring lawyers still
in high school or still in college and one thing that i realized and this was
me as well that as an aspiring lawyer sometimes you don't even know exactly
what that entails right like you know you want to be a lawyer but before you go
to law school before you get exposure to different types of law you kind of
don't really know all the types of law that there is because you guys there are so
many different types of law like so so so many so today i'm going to be
touching on just a variety of different practice areas of law and by no means is this
list comprehensive by no means am i going to be able to go over every
different type of law but i am just going to go through about 15 to 20 different types
of law we'll see how many i come up with but um just a disclaimer i'm not going
to go into much detail because there are so many and obviously i only practice
you know one type of law so i can't speak to everything i just can give a
general overview and if something clicks for you and that feels like something you
might want to do then i encourage you all to go do your research on that type of
law and see if you can get exposure to it and really understand what it is so
when you go to law school or when you graduate you will know exactly what type of
job that you are looking to get so like i said it's a long list so i'm going to
go through them quickly by no means am i claiming to know everything about what
these types of lawyers do just trying to give you guys a general overview just in
case something piques your interest and you can go explore on your own so let's
jump right in.
Corporate Law ( Transactional ) :
so the first type of law i'm going to talk about of course is
business corporate law and obviously if you guys have been on my channel you know
that i practice transactional business corporate law you know there's different
names for it but essentially i practice transactional corporate law just like with
all the practice areas i'm going to talk about there is a multitude of
subsections under business law right but essentially corporate law relates to rules and
regulations for business entities so essentially corporate business lawyers
assist clients who are businesses with running the legal aspect of their business
like i said there's so many subsections and you know you got your day-to-day
general corporate work with respect to helping clients drive contracts negotiate
contracts draft employment agreements before their employees um what i do mergers in
acquisition sell their company buy their company buy assets of another company sell some
assets of their company there's so many routes you can go under business law
right but if you're the type of person who feels like you really don't want to be
in court you really don't want to be drafting motions and reading briefs and
things like that you rather be you know helping businesses operate and advising
businesses you might want to look into you know business law okay all right
Bankruptcy Law :
so next type of practice bankruptcy law so bankruptcy lawyers do exactly what it sounds
like bankruptcy lawyers represent clients as they're navigating the process of
going through bankruptcy and this could be an individual or it could be a business
as some of you may or may not know bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which an
individual or business is basically unable to repay the debts that they owe to
creditors so a bankruptcy court will help these businesses or individuals evaluate
their assets and figure out how to repay their creditors so basically bankruptcy
lawyers help with that i've actually had a little bit of experience with bankruptcy
law just a tad i just helped on some due diligence and things like that and a
couple of transactions throughout my career definitely not for me but i will say
that bankruptcy lawyers come in handy in times like this in times like 2008 and
you always need a good bankruptcy lawyer all right .
Civil Law :
so this next one is huge just
like business law civil litigation when i say civil litigation that is such a
broad category so many different sub sections or practice areas go under civil
litigation basically the best way to describe civil litigation is court disputes that
are not related to you know criminal law so in civil litigation you're gonna
have a lawsuit between you know two or more parties where one of our parties
will be the plaintiff and the other party or parties will be the defendant so the
plaintiffs sue the defendant for some sort of injury or harm that they've
alleged has been caused by the defendant and um they are suing for some sort of
damage it's usually money um and so like i said there's so many different types of
law under civil litigation just to name a few you think of contract disputes
you know you think of landlord tenant issues you know if you're trying to evict
your tenant or you know if somebody hits you with their car or you guys got in a
car accident and you're hurt and you want to sue them so really it really
individuals or businesses suing each other where no crime no actual crime is involved
all right .
Civil Rights Law :
so the next type of attorney is a civil rights attorney and honestly
they do just like it sounds they spend their time advocating for people's civil
rights in areas such as you know human rights equality rights social justice cases
of discrimination you know gender discrimination race discrimination as you
guys know there are laws put in place to protect people no matter what you you
know your race age sex or anything like that is when a person's civil rights have
been violated civil rights lawyers will come in and advocate uh for people you
know on the right so an example would be you know any kind of discrimination
claim um say you have been you know discriminated against because of your age you
know ageism civil rights lawyer will advocate on your behalf because you've been
discriminated against because of your age i definitely um tip my hat off to any civil
rights lawyers because you are very much needed and very much appreciated all
right .
Criminal Law :
the next one is criminal law so i feel like this is the type of law that
most people are familiar with just because it's portrayed so much on tv but when
i think of criminal i think of two different types of lawyers the first would
be criminal lawyers who work for the government whether that be in the
capacity of a prosecutor or a district attorney and those would be the people that
are charging criminals with you know the crime and trying to get you know
justice for whatever victim and put people behind bars and the other type of
government lawyer would be the public defenders you know everyone has a right to a
lawyer if they can't afford to get one on their own and so those are the people who
would defend the people who are being charged with the crime the other type would
be you know people who work for themselves and they they're not associated with
the government and they're just really criminal defense lawyers those are the
people that you know if you don't want a public defender you want you know someone
who you think will really advocate for your rights you go to them to defend you
for any crime you've been charged with whether that be you know murder robbery
drug crime dui anything like that that's what you would go to a criminal defense
attorney for the other thing to mention about criminal law is a lot of criminal
defense lawyers will niche down in the type of crimes that they defend there's
people out there who only do murder cases they only defend people who've been
charged with murder there's people out there who only do dwis like that is their
niche so some people will do a range of things and some people will niche down to
just one type and like that become their thing .
Entertainment Law :
all right the next type of lawyer
is entertainment lawyer which is funny because i used to think i wanted to be
an entertainment lawyer until i realized how much intellectual property law was
involved in that and then i realized you probably need to live in like california new
york and so yeah that dream quickly faded but entertainment lawyers are lawyers
who assist people in the entertainment industry think actresses singers uh you
know sports players and assist them with legal matters you know pertaining to the
entertainment industry now entertainment lawyers can be transactional
lawyers or litigators or they can do both so on the transactional side you think
negotiating and preparing contracts uh you think helping with marketing and branding
deals you know advertising deals things like that and obviously as a litigator you
know if you've been sued you know for copyright or something like that obviously
they will help you with that as well one thing that i think is less widely known
when people think of entertainment lawyers like outside of the lawyer community
is intellectual property is a huge component of being an entertainment lawyer
you should know your intellectual property law if you're going to be an
entertainment lawyer because entertainment lawyers will help their clients with things
like you know trademarks copyright making sure that client isn't infringing on
someone else's trademark or someone else's copyright and things like that so you
think of singers and and songs and things that you like even here on youtube like
one of my last Articles i had to take it down and redo it because i was playing
nipsey hustle in the background and as soon as i uploaded it youtube notified me
that somebody had claimed that that music was copyrighted and you know if i were
to keep it on my channel they could make money off of it if i would have made
money off of it they would be entitled to you know a piece of that money because
they own the music so i say all that to say that intellectual property law is
really really important in the entertainment law industry .
Intellectual Property Law :
so while we're on
intellectual property law we can just switch on to you know a full-blown intellectual
property lawyer intellectual property law is similar to most of the different types
of law i've been talking about where intellectual property lawyers can either
go the transaction route or the litigation route or they can do both i feel
like a lot of them do quasi because it crosses over to you know litigation and
transactional because intellectual property lawyers are going to help people and
businesses protect their brands you know you think of nike you can't just you know
print a shirt with the nike sign on it because nike has that protected you know
under intellectual property laws all right.
Family Law :
so next type of law is family law
family lawyers are going to be the people who represent people in family related
issues so you think divorce child custody child support alimony prenups you know
those types of things that's what a family lawyer is going to help you do and
actually i actually have a little bit of experience with family law my 2l year i did
a spring internship at a family law firm and it was interesting i knew it
wasn't for me um because it was just too much drama like the due diligence like uh
or whatever you call it on the litigation side i think they call it doc review
and transactional side you call it due diligence but reading through you know
text from the mom versus the dad and you know you know two people trying to get
custody and so they're trying to bring out the worst of the the other it just wasn't
my thing and there's actually a saying within the legal community like if you
practice family law you get the worst of people be like they're on the worst behavior
than the ugliest because you know it's a really contentious space where you know
two people are getting divorced they have kids and both sides want custody
neither size wants to pay you know child support or whatever so you just get the
worst of people and they say in criminal law you get the best of people because
people are on their best behavior they're putting their best foot forward because
they don't want to go to jail so yeah i knew family law wasn't for me but it
there is sometimes some you know some really juicy tea between people .
Environmental Law :
but moving on the next type of lawyer i'm going to talk about is an environmental lawyer
environmental lawyers basically work on behalf of their clients to ensure that
environmental related laws are being complied with so when you think of environmental you
think of like you know the clean water act protecting endangered species global
warming sustainability you know uh dealing with waste and trash and recycling and
things like that additionally though there is there are some environmental lawyers
who i feel like work in more of a like non-profit type of area where they are
advocating to enact and put into place laws and regulations that protect the
environment so those same issues but the laws aren't there yet to enforce they're trying
to advocate to have these laws put in place to protect the environment all
right .
Labor and Employment Law :
the next type of law is labor and employment law so labor and employment law
relates to matters and issues you know between employers and employees as you
guys know so under labor employment issues you know the compensation
discrimination sexual harassment if they're not giving your benefits dealing with unions
and things like that essentially as an employment lawyer you will either
represent the employee who feels like they've been wronged by the employer like say
for example you know the ceo sexually harassed someone and they want to sue
them or they're not being paid overtime you know in accordance with labor laws
you would represent the employee in suing the employer and then you have lawyers
who work on behalf of the employer so employers you know are defending
themselves from the claims against employees because they're not true .
Personal Injury Law :
so the next type
of law is personal injury law and honestly personal injury falls under the
civil litigation bucket because it is you know one person suing another i thought
it made sense to touch on it a little bit briefly just because it's such a big
aspect of law when you think of personal injury you know think of those commercials
where you know have you been hit by a truck or have you been harmed by
so-and-so so basically with personal injury one party will sue another party because
they feel they have a claim because that party has injured them in some way
whether that be physically emotionally or mentally yes it's not just physical you
can sue somebody who caused you emotional or uh mental damage as well so when i
think of personal injury i like the main ones i think of are car accidents um slip
and fall like in the grocery store and wrongful death all right .
Real Estate Law :
the next category is real estate law and i've actually had some experience in real estate law
i've started my career doing real estate law and as an m a lawyer it's a part of
my practice but i'm not a real estate lawyer there are so many things that
fall under real estate first you got to separate residential and commercial
residential deals more with you know houses and commercials more with you know business
spaces so but real estate basically involves everything related to land and
property some of the types of things real estate lawyers will do on the transactional
side draft leases uh drop documents drive contracts for people to purchase or
sell real estate on the litigation side if there's a matter between you know
landlord tenant there's a subsection of real estate where they're a real estate
finance lawyer so they help with the lending part of purchasing property so all
right .
Tax Law :
next type of lawyer is a tax lawyer a tax lawyer is obviously going to
specialize in tax law and you guys oh my god as a transactional lawyer tax lawyers are
a gift from god they're so important to transactions tax lawyers can represent
individuals or they can represent companies i when i work with tax lawyers
it's more in a company space because obviously i'm a transactional business
lawyer but essentially tax attorneys are going to assist individuals and businesses
and coming up with ways to avoid or ease their tax burden we all nobody wants
to pay taxes um we all know the tax code is like a cheat code and if you know
the tax code you can structure things to ease your tax burden so a good tax
attorney will help you do that so some tax attorneys will also help individuals who
are in trouble with their taxes you know with irs and stuff like that so like i
said there's a variety of things that tax lawyers do but one thing i do know is
they're super important all right .
Banking and Finance Law :
the next type of lawyer is a banking and finance
lawyer and along with real estate i did have experience with this starting my
career i don't do much lending work or anything like that anymore but i do get
exposure to it just given my general kind of corporate m a practice a banking and
finance lawyer is going to assist lenders and borrowers with you know arranging the
whole loan transaction lending process as with every category that i mentioned
there's so many subsections some of the things that they might do is like drop the
actual loan agreement and security agreement and just the loan documents that go
into a loan transaction when a bank is lending money to a person or a company
you know there's going to be a loan agreement there's going to be usually be a
security agreement there's going to be a bunch of ancillary documents you know to
complete the whole lending transaction and so lending a banking and finance attorney
will help with that some banking and finance attorneys also help banks with
compliance as you guys know you know there's a bunch of laws related to lending and
banks are held to certain standards that they have to comply with lost change
banking and finance lawyers will make sure that a bank's policies procedures
practices documents are in compliance with banking and lending laws all right .
Wills and Trusts Law ( Estate Planning ) :
the next type of attorney is an estate planning attorney so an estate planning
attorney will assist clients with estate planning matter they will help you plan for
things in instances where you know you die or you can become incapacitated they
will help you plan for that so you know your money your assets everything goes
to the people that you wanted to go in the manner that you wanted to go they
will drive documents such as wheels trusts powers of attorneys and other you know
estate planning related documents like that i feel like the most important role
that estate planning lawyers play is they helped you figure out how to
distribute your assets you know after death or when you become incapacitated in a tax
advantaged way right everyone knows that the irs is coming for the coins you know even
if you die they're gonna come for your beneficiaries coins right so okay so say
you just leave a bunch of money you leave millions of dollars a million dollars
worth of assets to your daughter when you die well if you don't have that
structured in a tax advantage way because you consulted with a good estate planning
attorney your daughter is gonna face some tax burdens for that and so i think that's
probably the biggest edge they got is they will help you distribute um your wealth
and your assets in a tax advantaged way and even if you don't have a bunch of
money it's still important to work with the estate planning attorney because if
you no matter what you got if it's a little bit or a lot you want to make sure
it goes to you know who you want to go to and you don't want your family
fighting and things like that you know when you die .
Immigration Law :
all right the last type of law
i'm going to talk about today is immigration law immigration law of course like
everything has a wide range of sub practices but essentially immigration lawyers are
going to help people just with that they're going to help people with attaining
citizenship attaining work visas attaining student visas they're going to help prevent
people from getting deported and also they're going to help employers who are
trying to hire people who aren't citizens and and help um employers comply with the
laws related to that because there is a process for that if you are an
employer and you're hiring employees there is a process for hiring people who are
not citizens you know at least here in the united states so i feel like i just
said a mouthful and like i said i try to go really short and really quick so i
can get through a lot of different types of law the purpose of this Article was
just to give you a little bit of information about several types of practices of
law just in case something piques your interest and you can go chase and seek
more information about that type of law maybe try to get an internship maybe try
to you know have an informational session with someone who practices that type
of law so you can start thinking about what type of law you want to do because
i will tell you if you're not in law school yet and you get to law school it's
not going to be just some magic that clicks you're going to have to you're
going to have to talk to people well for most people some people like i know i
want to be a litigator but for a lot of people you you there's no way for you to
know except to do your research to talk to people who do it and to get experience
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