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Area of law

Personal Injury & Tort Law

Compensation for harm caused by another's conduct.

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What this area covers

Tort lawyers represent people who have been injured and those alleged to be responsible. Cases involve accidents, defective products, professional negligence and similar harms.

Also called: Mass Torts, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Tort Law, Torts.

Typical legal work

  • Investigating claims and damages
  • Negotiating with insurers
  • Trying injury and product cases

Where lawyers work

  • Plaintiffs' firms
  • Insurance defense firms
  • Insurance companies

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Personal Injury & Tort Law. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

1 school · 1 center or institute

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Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.