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Office of The Assistant General Counsel for Administration
The Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Administration consists of the Assistant General Counsel, the Deputy Assistant General Counsel and three divisions:
Employment and Labor Law Division | Ethics Law and Programs Division | General Law Division
Welcome
The Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Administration
(AGC/Admin) is responsible for the coordination of all legal matters involved
in and concerned with the activities and interests of the Department of
Commerce in the field of administrative law. The AGC/Admin is the source
of legal expertise in specific areas of administrative law, appropriations
issues, civil rights, collective bargaining, employee benefits, ethics,
fiscal law, labor relations, management, personnel, property and travel
allowance.
Office
Desicription
The AGC/Admin also advises on special statutes such as the Antideficiency
Act, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The office serves as the
program office for ethics matters for the entire Department. As the Alternate
Designated Agency Ethics Official, the Assistant General Counsel is responsible
for administrating the Department’s ethics program. This includes
reviewing potential conflict of interest the financial disclosure statements
(Standard Form 278) of senior Department officials, advising all Department
employees on conflict of interest and post-employment restrictions and
administrating ethics training requirements. The AGC/Admin provides legal
representation on behalf of the Department in the conduct of litigation
involving adverse actions, civil rights, and cases before the Merit System
Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority and other labor
law fora. The administrative legal matters described above are common
to the Office of the Secretary and all operating units of the Department
and AGC/Admin provides advice in these matters across organizational lines.
Clients of this office include all Presidential appointees, heads of operating
units and their staffs.
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