Basic Law Terms
Types of Lawyers
Roles in Courtroom
Types of Laws
Law and TV
100

A legal case brought to court by one party against another.

What is a Lawsuit?

100

A lawyer that represents invididuals accused of crimes.

What is a criminal defense lawyer?

100

A public official who presides over legal proceedings in a court of law, acting as an impartial referee to ensure fair trials and make final decisions in legal disputes.

What is a judge?

100

 the body of law that defines crimes and determines the punishments for convicted offenders, such as fines or imprisonment.

What is criminal law?

100

a fashionable sorority girl who enrolls in Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend

What is Legally Blonde?

200

Information presented to prove or disprove something in court.

What is evidence?

200

A lawyer who helps clients in finanical distress

What is a bankrupcy lawyer?

200

A group of ordinary people sworn to hear evidence in a court trial and make a decision

What is a Jury?

200

an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations

What is Family Law?


200

A law TV show where every case is split between the police investigation and the legal prosecution.

What is Law and Order?
300

The person being accused or sued.

What is defendent?

300

A lawyer that handles cases related to selling, buying and leasing property.

What is a real estate lawyer?

300

A person who has seen, heard, or knows about an event and provides testimony about it

What is a witness?

300

This area of law relates to conduct of companies, organizations, and businesses.

What is corporate law?

300

A brilliant college dropout gets hired as an associate at a prestigious New York law firm by a senior partner despite never having gone to law school.

What is Suits?

400

The final decision made by a jury or judge.

What is Verdict?

400

A lawyer that handles legal issues for businesses

What is a business/corporate lawyer?

400

A lawyer who represents the government in criminal cases, deciding whether to press charges and arguing the case.

What is a prosecutor?

400
An area of law relating to health care industry and their patients?

What is Health Law?

400

set in a single jury room, where twelve men deliberate the fate of a teenager accused of murdering his father.

What is 12 angry men?

500

A request for a higher court to review a lower courts decision

What is Appeal?

500

A lawyer who helps celebrities such as athletes, musicians, or actors.

What is a entertainment lawyer?
500

A court official who maintains order and security in a courtroom

What is a bailiff?

500

An area of law that relates to the relationships between employee, employer, and union?

What is Labour Law?

500

Attorney Fletcher Reede is an ace in the courtroom, but his dishonesty and devotion to work ruin his relationships. His son makes him promise to stop lying for 24 hours but its during his career deciding case.

What is Liar Liar?