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About the Office of the General Counselor

.The Workplace of the General Legal adviser offers functional management regarding lawful solutions and concerns connected to all aspects of NASA tasks for Facility Chief and Patent Attorney and, for Agency-wide concerns, the Administrator. These companies as well as concerns include setting up and sharing legal plan and also translating brand-new laws and also instances. The Workplace of the General Counselor is actually also responsible for cultivating the ethics and patent course requirements, setting up metrics, and creating quality specifications.As a practical office Partner Administrator, the General Counselor serves in a consultatory capability to the Manager, and also works with Organization Colleague Administrators and Center Supervisors to make sure that Company activities are performed based on all statutory and regulative requirements.The Office of the General Legal adviser also serves as Washington, DC, litigation counsel, supplies lawsuits experience to the Firm, and also acts as the Company representative just before the USA Patent and Trademark Workplace. The Workplace likewise gives expert tips, error and spillover support to Centers, and delivers legal solutions to all the workplaces at Base of operations.The Workplace of the General Counsel at Head office is actually coordinated into a frontal office, one lawful plan and 4 lawful process teams:.Purchase Honesty System-- The Acquisition Honesty Course (AIP) possesses major responsibility for legal concerns relating to procurement scams and other relevant irregularities, treatments coordination, and also suspension and also debarment. The Course is accountable for stopping, sensing, and hindering procurement fraudulence with education and learning and instruction of the NASA workforce along with for assisting the investigation and prosecution of fraud and also nepotism pertaining to the procurement procedure..Commercial &amp Copyright-- This Method Team possesses major duty for patent issues in residential and also worldwide contracts, specialized information concerns, license as well as copyright licensing, as well as the circulation of pc software application, along with non-procurement (Room Act) contracts with office and also global facilities..Contracts &amp Purchase-- This Strategy Team possesses primary responsibility for deals, gives, as well as cooperative deals..General Regulation-- This Practice Team has main duty for areas including values, staffs, economic, environmental, and also security and safety and security legislation, along with regulations and also various other places not particularly assigned to some of the other departments..International and also Room Regulation-- This Strategy Group has major duty over legal concerns relating to export control, Liberty of Relevant information Action appeals, and also standard issues of worldwide regulation.General Attorney: Eye Lan.Deputy General Counselor: Christine Pham (Acting).Management Team: Carolyn L. Johnson, Paralegal Specialist Lead Jeanette Covington, Managerial SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Workflow Team: Bryan Diederich, (Acting) Supervisor of Lawful OperationsTanya Jefferson, Management as well as Plan AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Administration and Course Professional.OGC Leadership Listing Connect With Relevant Information for the Base Management and Center Chief Counsels.OGC Waiver: The content within this site carry out certainly not constitute lawful insight. For information review our waiver.