About the Office of the General Counsel

.The Office of the General Counselor provides functional management concerning legal solutions as well as problems related to all elements of NASA activities for Center Principal and Patent Counselor and, for Agency-wide problems, the Supervisor. These services and also problems include establishing and circulating legal plan as well as deciphering brand-new laws and cases. The Workplace of the General Counsel is likewise in charge of creating the principles and also patent course criteria, creating metrics, and also establishing high quality specifications.As a useful workplace Colleague Supervisor, the General Counselor offers in a consultatory capability to the Supervisor, and teams up with Business Colleague Administrators and also Facility Supervisors to make certain that Organization activities are actually carried out in accordance with all lawful and also regulative criteria.The Workplace of the General Legal adviser additionally acts as Washington, DC, lawsuits counselor, offers litigation skills to the Firm, and works as the Organization representative before the united state Patent and also Hallmark Workplace.

The Workplace also supplies experienced advise, error and also overflow support to Centers, and gives lawful services to all the workplaces at Head office.The Workplace of the General Attorney at Base is coordinated right into a main workplace, one lawful program as well as 4 lawful method groups:.Purchase Stability Program– The Acquisition Honesty Course (AIP) possesses key task for lawful problems pertaining to procurement scams as well as various other associated abnormalities, solutions control, and revocation and debarment. The Course is accountable for preventing, detecting, and preventing procurement scams through education and learning and also instruction of the NASA labor force in addition to for assisting the investigation as well as prosecutor of scams as well as shadiness pertaining to the acquisition method..Commercial &amp Copyright– This Technique Group possesses key task for trademark concerns in residential and international deals, technical records problems, license and copyright licensing, and also the distribution of computer software application, and also non-procurement (Room Action) contracts along with business and also global bodies..Agreements &amp Procurement– This Strategy Team has main accountability for agreements, gives, and collective arrangements..General Legislation– This Practice Team possesses key duty for regions like ethics, personnel, fiscal, ecological, and safety as well as surveillance law, in addition to laws and various other locations certainly not especially delegated to among the other branches..International and also Space Rule– This Practice Group has primary obligation over lawful problems pertaining to export management, Independence of Information Action beauties, and also standard matters of global legislation.General Legal Adviser: Eye Lan.Representant General Counselor: Christine Pham (Acting).Management Workers: Carolyn L. Johnson, Paralegal Specialist Lead Jeanette Covington, Management SpecialistTel: 202-358-2450.OGC Legal Functions Crew: Bryan Diederich, (Performing) Director of Lawful OperationsTanya Jefferson, Management and also System AnalystJustyna Ragiel-Smith, Administration and also Plan Professional.OGC Management Directory Site Call Info for the Base Of Operations Leadership as well as Center Chief Counsels.OGC Disclaimer: The materials within this site do not make up lawful assistance.

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