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Legal Issues Taxonomy
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The Legal issues IA is a complex taxonomy for categorizing legal information. It is poly-hierarchical. 

It will be replaced on the website front-end in the future. See :ref:`taxonomy-status-label` 

Taxonomy Structure
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Each taxonomy term has:
* a name
* a description. This is used on subcategory and category pages.
* whether it should be used in the autosuggest on Get Legal Help
* alternatives (these can be helpful for autocompletes)
* an icon. This is only needed on the top level categories. The icon is per language.
* an image. This is used on category and subcategory pages. The image is limited to one for all languages

.. note:: The top content field has been deprecated.


Use Cases
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This is currently used:

* For front-end navigation
* To define the legal issues an organization takes in its services for referrals
* To limit triage rules for OTIS to specific legal issues
* To limit intake settings for OTIS to specific legal issues
* To help users drill down to their legal issues in Get Legal Help