Legal Information for U.S. Organizations (Businesses and Nonprofits)
Assembled by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD
Sections of This Topic Include
Overview – Basics (below)
The following links are to other pages in the Library.
Advertising
/ Marketing Laws (“truth in advertising”, etc.)
Business
Contracts
Employee
Law (major topics and laws, employee contracts, at-will, non-compete,
etc.)
Federal
Charter Documents – U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence
General Counsel Role
General
Resources (sites with multiple areas of legal information)
Lawyers
(getting, using, power of attorney, etc.)
Libraries,
Directories and Other References
Nonprofit-Specific
Legal Information (NOTE: most other topics apply to nonprofits,
too)
Intellectual
Property (patents, trademarks, copyrights)
Enterprise
Law (starting organizations, legal forms of organizations, etc.)
Federal
Laws
State
Laws
Telecommunications
Laws
Complete List of Email Retention Laws: Federal, State and Industry
Also consider
Related Library Topics
Overview of Business Law
Business law encompasses a wide range of topics. Wikipedia lists many of them
its definition of business law:
Business law consists of many different areas taught in law school and business
school curricula, including: Contracts, the law of Corporations and other
Business Organizations, Securities Law, Intellectual Property, Antitrust,
Secured Transactions, Commercial Paper, Income Tax, Pensions & Benefits,
Trusts & Estates, Immigration Law, Labor Law, Employment Law and Bankruptcy.
It is a branch of law that examines topics that impact the operation of a
business.
The above links are to resources that cover most of the topics listed by Wikipedia.
Also consider
Business Law – American
Bar Association
What is Business Law
– Definition and Overview
None of the information in these business law topics should be interpreted
as legal advice. They are for reference purposes only.
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