The following are the legal areas in which the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel staff work, not areas in which they will provide legal advice.
Business & Transactions
- Bankruptcy
- Collection, Account Receivables
- Construction
- Contracts
- Contract Dispute
- Environmental Law/Environment, Health & Safety
- Gaming/Raffles
- General Tort Liability
- Housing, Student
- Insurance Law
- Investments
- Leases, Equipment
- Leases, Real Estate
- License, Liquor
- Michigan Public Media
- Purchasing
- Real Estate
- Taxes
- University Name/Logo, use of
- Utilities
Charitable Giving & Bequest Administration
- Agreements related to gifts, Alumni Directories
- Bequests, other proceeds from decedent’s trusts and estates
- Charitable Trusts
- Endowment
- Gifts to the University (including hard to value assets)
- Gifts with retained life interest
- Taxes relating to gifts, estates, and trusts
Faculty, Students, & Staff
- Academic Affairs
- Academic Affiliation & Exchange Agreements
- Affirmative Action/Diversity Initiatives
- Athletics
- Agency Civil Rights, Discrimination Complaints (including disability and sexual harassment)
- Benefits, Employee
- Discrimination, Harassment (including sexual harassment)
- Election Law
- Employment, Faculty
- Employment Law
- Faculty Issues
- House Officers
- Immigration
- International Engagement
- Labor Unions
- Medical Staff
- Public Safety
- In-State Tuition Guidelines for Students
- Student Life
- Student Loan Administrations & Collections
- Student Records/FERPA
- Study Abroad/Off-Campus
- Subpoenas
- Tenure
Health Law
- Academic Affiliation & Exchange Agreements
- Academics, Faculty, and House Officers
- Accreditation
- Charitable Giving and Bequest Administration
- Clinical Safety/Risk Management
- Compliance
- Conflicts of Interest
- Consumer Complaints
- Contracts
- Credentialing, Medical Staff Bylaws
- EMTALA
- Fraud and Abuse
- Guardianship and Mental Health
- Health Information Technology
- HIPAA, Release of PHI, Forms
- Immigration
- Labor & Employment
- Licensure (including faculty, staff, facilities)
- Litigation (meetings, depositions, trial testimony, small claims)
- Managed Care
- Medical Malpractice
- Medicare/Medicaid COPs and Provider-Based Rules
- Mergers and Acquisitions, JVs, Affiliations
- Patents/Intellectual Property
- Patients’/Recipients’ Rights
- Pharmacy/Controlled Substances
- Physician Contracts & Physician Compensation
- Professional Licensure
- Quality/Patient Safety Collaborations
- Real Estate
- Research and Sponsored Projects (including basic science, product development, animal and human subjects research, and clinical trials)
- Revenue Cycle Appeals
- Risk Management/Clinical Safety
- Student Life
- Subpoenas/Requests for Information
- Telemedicine
- University Health Service
Public Higher Education & Governance
- Academic Affiliation & Articulation Agreements
- Affiliated Entities
- Building Authority, State
- Conflict of Interest
- Diversity and Affirmative Action Initiatives
- First Amendment
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
- Athletics and NCAA
- Regents/President, Executive Officers
- Regental Bylaws and Ordinance
- Treasurer/Financing/Banking
- University Governance
Research & Intellectual Property/Information Technology
- Computer/Internet Law
- Information Security
- Intellectual Property (including copyright, patents, trademark)
- Licensing
- Media Rights
- Online/Distance Education
- Patents/Inventions
- Privacy and Defamation
- Publishing
- Research
- Research Regulatory Issues
- Technology Litigation
