Law Glossary

Glossary of Legal Terms and Definitions

Find comprehensive definitions of the most common law terms with Winston & Strawn LLP’s legal glossary.

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A
aBLA
Advertising Litigation
Artificial Intelligence (AI)

B
Baby HSR Laws
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
Bid Protest
Big Data
Biologic
Biosimilar 
Biosimilar Approval Process
Biosimilar License
Biosimilarity Establishment
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Blue Sky Laws
Bradford Hill Criteria
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
BPCIA

C
California Unfair Competition Law
Capitalization
Children’s Privacy Law
Class Action
Closing
Cloud Computing
Communications Privacy
Consumer Fraud
Consumer Marketing
Consumer Targeting
Consumer Tracking
Consumer Privacy
Controlled Company
Cooling-off Period
Copyright Licensing
Copyright Royalty Board
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Cross-Border Data Protection
Cryptocurrency
Cybersquatting

D
Dark Patterns
Data Breach and Data Security
Data Security
Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)
Delaware Corporation
Design Defect
Digital Media
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Dilution
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)
Disruptive Technology
Dodd-Frank Act
Domestic Industry Requirement
Due Diligence

E
Effective Date
Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR)
Emerging Technology
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
Epidemiology
ESG in Finance
ESG Investing
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Executive Compensation

F
Failure to Warn
Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)
Federal Contract
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Financial Privacy
FinTech
Flash Loans
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Foreign Private Issuer (FPI)
Form 8-K
Form 10-K
Form S-1

G
General Causation
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Generative AI
Generic Drug
Generic Drug Approval
Generic Drug License
Greenwashing

H
Health Care Privacy
Health Care Security

I
Institutional Investors
Institutional Shareholder Services
Interchangeable Biological Products
Internet of Things (IoT)
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Inter Partes Review (IPR)

J
JOBS Act
Jones Act

L
Loot Boxes

M
Manufacturing Defect
MARPOL
Microplastics
Mobile Privacy

N
Nasdaq
Nasdaq Composite Index
National Advertising Division (NAD)
National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
Non-Fungible Token (NFT)
No Sugar Added
Nutrition Claims

O
Offshore Wind
Online Privacy
Outsourced Technology

P
Patent Dance
Patent Trial and Appeal Board
Performance-Based Compensation
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL)
Post-Grant Review (PGR)
Pre-IPO
Price Range
Privacy Assessments
Privacy Audit
Privacy Compliance
Privacy Shield
Pro Forma
Prospectus
Proxy Statement
Publicly Held Company
“Purple Book”

Q
Qualified Retirement Plan 
Quiet Period

R
Removal
Roadshow
Rule 144A

S
Safe Harbor
Securities Act of 1933
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Shipping Act
Slack Fill
Social Media Law
Specific Causation
Staking

T
Taste Claims
TCPA
Telemarketing
Temporary Restraining Order
Theft of Confidential Information
Tracking and Monitoring
Trademark Infringement
Trade Secret
Trans Fat

U
Unfair Trade Practices
Uniform Grant Guidance
U.S. Coastwise Laws
Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act 

W
Wash Trading
Workplace Privacy