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Ethics and conflicts
Catch the conflict before it is a headline.
Ethics officers, inspectors general, and compliance counsel
Request a briefingWhat it does
Ethics, specifically.
- Check a proposed action against ethics rules and prior determinations.
- Research disclosure, recusal, and post-employment requirements.
- Draft determinations with the governing provision attached.
- Maintain the standard the agency actually applies, in writing.
- Keep an audit trail an inspector general could reconstruct.
More legal work
The same corpus supports the next desk over.
Legal research and authority mapping
Find the controlling authority, and be able to prove it.
Guidance and advisory opinions
Interpretation that others can build on.
Litigation and administrative hearings
Work product that survives the other side reading it.
Contracts and procurement
Review every instrument against the law that governs it.