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About the Workplace of the General Counselor

.The Office of the General Counselor delivers useful leadership relating to legal companies and concerns related to all facets of NASA tasks for Facility Chief and also Patent Counselor and, for Agency-wide issues, the Supervisor. These companies as well as problems feature establishing and also sharing legal plan as well as interpreting brand new laws as well as instances. The Workplace of the General Attorney is actually additionally in charge of establishing the principles and patent plan needs, setting up metrics, and also building high quality criteria.As a functional office Colleague Administrator, the General Counsel serves in a consultatory ability to the Manager, and collaborates with Business Colleague Administrators and also Center Supervisors to ensure that Agency activities are actually administered based on all lawful and regulatory requirements.The Workplace of the General Legal adviser also works as Washington, DC, lawsuits counsel, delivers judicial proceeding competence to the Company, and also acts as the Company representative prior to the united state Patent and Hallmark Workplace. The Workplace also offers skilled recommendations, mistake as well as spillover assistance to Centers, and provides legal companies to all the workplaces at Company headquaters.The Workplace of the General Attorney at Base of operations is organized into a frontal office, one lawful system and also 4 lawful method groups:.Purchase Stability Course-- The Procurement Honesty System (AIP) has primary responsibility for lawful issues pertaining to procurement fraudulence and various other similar irregularities, remedies balance, and also revocation and debarment. The System is responsible for stopping, sensing, and also discouraging procurement fraudulence with education and learning as well as instruction of the NASA workforce in addition to for sustaining the inspection as well as district attorney of fraud and corruption related to the procurement procedure..Commercial &amp Patent-- This Technique Team possesses main obligation for patent problems in residential and also international contracts, specialized data issues, license as well as copyright licensing, and the distribution of computer software program, and also non-procurement (Area Act) agreements along with industrial as well as worldwide bodies..Deals &amp Procurement-- This Method Group has key task for agreements, grants, and also participating arrangements..General Rule-- This Strategy Team possesses major obligation for areas such as ethics, employees, economic, ecological, as well as safety and security and also security law, in addition to laws and various other areas not especially delegated to one of the other divisions..International and also Room Rule-- This Method Group possesses major obligation over legal issues pertaining to export management, Flexibility of Information Action beauties, as well as basic issues of worldwide regulation.General Attorney: Iris Lan.Replacement General Legal Adviser: Christine Pham (Acting).Management Team: Carolyn L. Johnson, Legal Assistant Specialist Lead Jeanette Covington, Management SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Workflow Staff: Bryan Diederich, (Performing) Director of Legal OperationsTanya Jefferson, Administration and also Plan AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Monitoring as well as Program Expert.OGC Management Directory Connect With Info for the Central Office Leadership and also Facility Chief Counsels.OGC Disclaimer: The content within this site do certainly not constitute lawful advice. For particulars review our please note.