Welcome to the Office of General Counsel at UMBC

On this site, we offer information about our office and about legal issues of interest and importance to the campus community.

We hope you will use our site as a basic reference on an ever expanding selection of legal topics and as a way to become acquainted with our office, our staff, and the work that we do for you and for UMBC. Please let us know if you have any suggestions or comments regarding the site and its offerings. We especially welcome your ideas about new legal topics that you would like the site to address.

 

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