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Substantive Law Selections

When a user creates a new matter, the matter must be assigned an area of substantive law. The standard list of substantive law types is provided by Tracker. Users can activate or deactivate a substantive law type, but only Legal Tracker Support can add a type.
Default Substantive Law Selections
The following substantive law selections are available by default:
  • Admiralty & Maritime
  • Advertising/Sweepstakes
  • Agricultural Law
  • Antitrust/Unfair Competition
  • Aviation/Aerospace
  • Banking/Financial Services
  • Bankruptcy
  • Biotechnology
  • Computers/Software
  • Constitutional Law
  • Construction
  • Consumer Law
  • Contracts/Commercial Law
  • Corporations/Business Entities
  • Criminal
  • Debtor/Creditor/Collections
  • Drug/Pharmaceutical
  • Employment/Labor
  • Energy/Natural Resources
  • Entertainment/Sports
  • Environmental Law
  • Equipment Finance and Leasing
  • Food
  • Franchises/Franchising
  • Gaming & Gambling
  • General Rep/Counseling
  • Government Contracts
  • Immigration & Naturalization
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Defense
  • International Law/Trade
  • Internet/E-commerce
  • IP - Copyright
  • IP - Other
  • IP - Patent
  • IP - Trademark
  • Libel/Slander/Defamation
  • Liquor Licensing/Liability
  • Loans/Secured Transactions
  • Lobbying/Elections & Political Law
  • Media/Press
  • Medical Law/Health
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Mergers/Acquisitions/Divestitures
  • Other
  • Privacy Law/Data Protection
  • Public Finance
  • Real Estate
  • Regulatory/Compliance
  • Securities Liability
  • Securities/Corporate Finance
  • Subpoenas/Warrants
  • Tax
  • Telecommunications
  • Torts/Liability
  • Toxic Torts
  • Transportation Law
  • Utility Law
  • Workers Compensation
  • Zoning/Land Use
Deactivating Substantive Law Selections
If you have customized your substantive law list and your company decides not to use a particular substantive law type, you can deactivate it so that users will not see it so that users will not see it in the list of available substantive law selections.
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If you do not see the option to click the name of your substantive law types and deactivate them, contact Tracker Support.
To deactivate a substantive law type:
  1. Select
    Settings
    in the left navigation.
  2. Under
    Matters Setup
    , click
    Substantive Law
    .
  3. Click the name of the substantive law selection you want to deactivate.(If you are unable to click the name of a substantive law selection that you want to work with, contact Tracker Support.) The
    Edit Substantive Law
    page opens.
  4. Click the
    Active
     check box to clear it.
  5. On the toolbar, select
    Save & close
    .
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Deactivating a substantive law selection will not change the value in existing matters. If you deactivate a substantive law selection, it will not change the value in the matters that have already been created. To change the selected substantive law selection in the matters that have already been created, go into the matter and edit the selection once the substantive law selection has been deactivated.
If you later decide you need the substantive law selection, you can reactivate it by clicking the
Active
 check box.

Viewing Deactivated Substantive Law Selections

  1. Select
    Settings
    in the left navigation.
  2. Under
    Matters Setup
    , click
    Substantive Law
    . By default, only active substantive law selections are shown.
  3. To also display inactive areas of substantive law, click
    Both active/inactive
    , and then click
    Change View
    .

This article applies to:

  • Product: Legal Tracker
  • Audiences: Company