The legal department is located in Jacksonville, Florida, and provides legal advice to professional services firms in the State of Florida. Professional services firms include firms that provide specialized, knowledge-based services. We act as Chief Legal Officer and provide commercial law advice on the infrastructure needed to strengthen a business. All implementing regulations and substantive proclamations to be issued by the President are reviewed as to form and legality by the Office of the Legal Counsel, as well as various other matters requiring the formal approval of the President. Large corporations spend thousands of dollars on legal fees. Even if a business goes wrong, they can absorb the losses. Small businesses don`t always have the resources to resist a bad move. We provide them with legal advice so that they can be protected. The Academic Office advises the University on various legal matters. This legal advice covers a very wide range of topics. Lawyers and staff include specialists with unique skills and training on specific topics, as well as “generalists” who are familiar with various legal and policy areas. Tom is a General Officer of the Board of Governors and the University, and acts as legal counsel to the Board of Governors, the President and other administrative officers of the University. Legal Services NYC fights poverty and fights for racial, social and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers.

Our neighborhood offices and proximity locations help more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year. Our services are free of charge. LSNYC will never charge its clients legal representation fees. Scott represents and advises the University`s Legal Counsel in the administration of legal services to the Board of Governors, the President, University officials and the University`s three campuses. The legal aid service is not authorized to provide legal advice to individuals. Every day, the more than 850 attorneys and 750 support professionals of the New York City Department of Law work together to achieve justice while providing the city with the highest quality of legal advocacy. The Legal Department represents the city, the mayor, other elected officials and the many city authorities in all positive and defensive civil cases, as well as in juvenile criminal proceedings before the Family Court and administrative code enforcement proceedings before the criminal court. Legal counsel drafts and reviews local and state laws, real estate leases, supply contracts, and financial instruments for the sale of municipal bonds. The service also provides legal advice to municipal officials on various issues such as immigration, education and environmental policy. There is rarely a major city initiative that is not shaped by legal staff.

Learn more about New York`s legal department On behalf of the Attorney General, the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of the Legal Counsel advises the President and all executive agencies. The Office prepares the legal opinions of the Attorney General and issues its own written and other advice in response to requests from the President`s Adviser, the various executive agencies and other parts of the Ministry of Justice. These requests generally involve particularly complex and important legal issues, or on which two or more organizations disagree. The Office is also responsible for reviewing and advising on the constitutionality of pending legislation. The legal department is also responsible for carrying out real estate transactions and preparing opinions on matters of legal importance for elected officials and executive and administrative officials. The Legal Department provides legal assistance and advice to the Commissioner of Insurance, Department employees, consumers, members of the executive and legislative branches, and other parties interested in the Massachusetts insurance market. Staff lawyers research and write bulletins, regulations, and interpretive letters on Massachusetts insurance law, analyze insurance laws, and often serve as hearing agents in administrative proceedings. The Legal Department advises and represents all elected and appointed officers, agencies and commissions of the City in all legal matters affecting the City of Gloucester. The office advises the municipal administration in its day-to-day activities. We act as your legal department. Not as employees of your company, but as long-term consultants who will help you succeed. If you have a short-term problem, we can also help.

Whatever happens, we don`t charge by the hour. It`s just not in our business model. Instead, we use a system that allows us to be transparent with costs, set honest expectations, and promote open communication with our customers. Our clients decide how they want to work with us – based on a limited project or over the course of a year. Both have advantages. It`s about building a legal infrastructure in your business. These areas need to grow with the business, which is an ongoing effort. This is done over time under the guidance of experienced business lawyers who understand how service businesses work. The legal department does not provide advice on private legal matters such as: • Reimbursement of attorneys` fees for current and former federal employees interviewed as witnesses in the Mueller investigation (Oct. 7, 2020) • Counsel`s assistance in removal proceedings (I), 33 op.

cit. O.L.C. 1 (2009) • Immunity of the Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to the President before Congress (July 12, 2019) • Affirmation of Executive Privilege over Advisory Documents to Include the Citizenship Question in the 2020 Census Questionnaire (June 11, 2019) • Memorandum to Jason Klitenic, General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, by Steven A. Engel, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Determines an “Urgent Concern” (September 3, 2019) (published) To support a complex and diverse client such as the university, the Office of the University Counsel is organized to best meet the client`s needs. Each campus has a legal advisor on campus who manages several lawyers. This organizational approach allows lawyers to be easily reachable with and close to their clients, while creating a channel of direct communication with the Chancellor. • Application of the recommendation clause to Section 802 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (August 25, 2016) • Issue a report to the President on the national security impact of imports of automobiles and auto parts (January 17, 2020). • Application of the Anti-Nepotism Act to a Presidential Appointment to the White House Office (January 20, 2017) • Extension of the Regulatory Review of Executive Order 12866 to Independent Regulators (Oct. 8, 2019) The Commissioner of Insurance, as administrator of insurance legislation, is required to hold hearings on a wide range of matters, including national insurance rate cases, actions taken by the ministry against its licensees, and administrative complaints, including those against decisions of other market companies overseen by the Commissioner.

These issues significantly affect Massachusetts consumers and businesses and are the top priority of the Legal Department`s Hearings and Appeals Division. The administrative hearing procedure provides a flexible alternative to litigation and allows participants to benefit from the member`s expertise. • Religious restrictions on capital funding for historically black colleges and universities (August 15, 2019). • Reappointment of a member of the Board of Directors of National Credit Unions (10 December 2021) Volumes 39 and 40 of op. cit. O.L.C. – for the years 2015/2016 and soon to be printed and bound – are available on the page Opinions by volume. The publication of the individual opinions of this set will follow. Christopher H. Schroeder was appointed Assistant Attorney General of the Office of the General Counsel by the President on October 29, 2021, after being confirmed to that position by the Senate. • Gender segregation at youth rodeo events under Title IX regulation (January 13, 2021) For such matters, citizens should contact and consult a private lawyer.

• Whether the Food and Drug Administration has jurisdiction over items intended for use in lawful executions (May 3, 2019) • Attorney discretion regarding contempt of Congress summonses (June 16, 2014) • Protective assertion of executive privilege over the unredacted Mueller report and related investigative files (8. May 2019) • Appointment of an unpaid special advocate under 28 U.S.C. § 515, 36 op. O.L.C. 153 (2012) • Committee Resolutions under 40 U.S.C. § 3307(a) and Availability of Funds Provided (January 6, 2018) • Power to order targeted airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (December 30, 2014) • Authority to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (October 17, 2018) In addition to acting as an external consultant to the other The Office of the Legal Counsel plays a special role within the Department itself. It reviews all orders proposed by the Attorney General and regulations that require the approval of the Attorney General. It also performs various special duties assigned by the Attorney General or Deputy Attorney General.