ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on lawyers-roles to assist their clients (principals) to follow the law respective to emergency management and homeland security, allowing the important decision-makers in the fields to prevent legal liability in advance if at all possible. As late as the start of the 21st century, the vast majority of US law schools did not provide specialized, unique courses or an ever-larger emergency management law curriculum to effectively train lawyers to help homeland security stakeholders and emergency managers in specific matters of practice related to disaster science. One of the biggest general challenges is that definitive roles have not been expanded for lawyers in the areas of emergency management and homeland security. With learned, competent, and skilled lawyer representation in emergency management and homeland security law, homeland security stakeholders, emergency managers, and other personnel may be provided the highest quality legal advice and services related to terrorism and disasters.
