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Above mentioned are practice areas - means you can find people in these firms who know how to work in these issues.
There will also be another segment in the website - Focus Areas/Business Areas: which means that these firms have clients from these business sectors like Energy, Technology, Banking etc. One business area can have multiple practice areas associated to it. Ex: Energy company can also need assistance from MnA teams, competition law teams etc.
You should join Linkedin if you haven't already, don't get intimidated by your peers or students posting random achievements. Instead focus on law firms, their blogs or research papers on various subjects, follow Partners from various law firms and other teams, you will keep getting information from there.
This will give you sufficient exposure to dig up more.
TMT Telecom Media and Technology
PIE projects, infrastructure and energy
VC venture capital
PE private equity
Will start you off with:
DD is for due diligence.
A0, A1, A2, SA, SA-1, PA, etc are for Associate, Senior Associate, Principal Associate (and the number sometimes means how many years you've been at that level)