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About the Office of the General Counselor

.The Office of the General Attorney gives practical leadership relating to legal services and issues connected to all elements of NASA activities for Center Main as well as License Counsel as well as, for Agency-wide issues, the Administrator. These companies and also concerns feature setting up and distributing lawful policy and translating brand new statutes and also scenarios. The Workplace of the General Legal adviser is actually likewise responsible for cultivating the principles as well as patent program criteria, creating metrics, and also building top quality criteria.As an operational workplace Affiliate Administrator, the General Attorney offers in an advisory capability to the Administrator, and also partners with Venture Colleague Administrators and Center Directors to guarantee that Organization tasks are actually conducted according to all judicial and governing requirements.The Office of the General Legal adviser likewise serves as Washington, DC, litigation legal adviser, supplies litigation proficiency to the Firm, and serves as the Company rep prior to the USA Patent and Hallmark Workplace. The Office likewise supplies professional guidance, lapse and spillover support to Centers, and delivers legal services to all the workplaces at Base.The Office of the General Legal Adviser at Base is managed in to a main workplace, one legal system and also four legal practice teams:.Acquisition Stability Course-- The Procurement Honesty System (AIP) possesses major task for lawful issues relating to procurement fraudulence and also other similar abnormalities, remedies balance, and also suspension and also debarment. The Course is responsible for protecting against, finding, as well as putting off procurement scams through education and learning as well as training of the NASA staff along with for supporting the examination and also prosecutor of fraudulence and corruption pertaining to the acquisition procedure..Commercial &amp Patent-- This Method Team possesses main duty for trademark problems in residential as well as global deals, specialized records issues, license as well as copyright licensing, and the distribution of computer software application, as well as non-procurement (Area Action) agreements along with office and worldwide companies..Deals &amp Purchase-- This Strategy Team possesses key task for contracts, gives, and collective deals..General Law-- This Practice Team possesses key accountability for locations like ethics, staffs, financial, ecological, and also safety and security as well as safety and security legislation, as well as regulation and other areas certainly not primarily delegated to some of the various other divisions..International and Space Law-- This Strategy Group has key obligation over legal concerns regarding export management, Liberty of Details Act charms, and standard issues of global rule.General Counselor: Iris Lan.Deputy General Attorney: Christine Pham (Acting).Administrative Team: Carolyn L. Johnson, Paralegal Expert Lead Jeanette Covington, Managerial SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Workflow Staff: Bryan Diederich, (Performing) Director of Lawful OperationsTanya Jefferson, Monitoring and Course AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Administration as well as Program Professional.OGC Leadership Listing Call Information for the Central Office Management and Facility Main Counsels.OGC Disclaimer: The information within this website carry out certainly not make up legal assistance. For information review our waiver.