Procedural
These two words refer to people or entities on either side of a civil lawsuit
What are plaintiff and defendant?
When an employee’s moonlighting goes against her employer’s best interests, she commits this legal wrong
What is a breach of duty of loyalty?
Fancy lawyer lingo for signing a formal document
What is execute?
An adjective meaning “secret”
What is confidential?
An on-campus week of high intensity compressed classes and an opportunity to connect with your peers and MSL faculty/staff
What is a Power Week?
The document that begins a lawsuit
What is a complaint?
The line crossed by an employee who breaches duty of loyalty
What is directly competing?
A type of legal wrong that sounds like a dessert
What is a tort?
Something you own exclusively
What is proprietary?
Northwestern’s learning management system, where all of your course materials are housed
What is Canvas?
A verb describing what lawyers do with facts they plan to prove later in a lawsuit
What is allege?
What people and companies own that is created by the human mind
What is intellectual property?
When you see wet ground and conclude that it recently rained, you have done this
What is make a reasonable inference?
Where the Canadian-born “Despacito” singer got his start…
What is YouTube?
The site you use to register for your MSL classes
What is CAESAR?
A court order requiring the lawsuit’s loser to do or stop doing something
What is an injunction?
A worker without contractual job protection
What is an at-will employee?
The law’s requirements for proving a legal violation
What are elements of a cause of action?
A 25-cent word for “harmful”
What is inimical?
The web-conferencing platform used for live, MSL synchronous sessions
What is Zoom?
What a lawyer files with the court when she thinks her opponent’s case is extremely weak
What is a motion to dismiss?
Someone whose actions make you legally responsible
What is an agent?
Judicial opinions create this type of legal authority
What is common law?
A technologically-driven form of free market enterprise
What is e-commerce?
Our beloved MSL mascot
Who is Rico Suave?