Areas of Practice Guide

Use these links to view the areas of practice for:

United States
North & South America
Europe, Asia, Australasia

If you are searching the Lawyer Locator
- From the left panel of this Guide, find the general area of practice most closely related to your search criterion.
- Click the text link. Related specific areas of practice will appear in this panel.
- Copy and paste or type the most applicable term into the "specific areas of practice" field. (This field is not case sensitive, but spelling does count.)

This method will produce the most accurate matches for your search.

If you are creating a Professional Listing
This guide contains a comprehensive classified listing of the legal practice areas commonly in use and searched in our database.

Use this terminology to select the areas of practice to be displayed in your listing. Selecting these terms for your Statement of Practice and individual Professional Listing optimizes the number of searches that will retrieve your professional credentials on all media platforms, including martindale.com®, lawyers.com® and CD-ROM.