The Office of the General Counsel performs a wide variety of legal services. These include advising University officials on regulatory compliance and other legal aspects of their duties; representing the University in litigation before federal and state courts and administrative agencies; advising on issues involving risk management; preparing, drafting, revising and negotiating contracts between the University and other entities; and representing the University in real estate and other commercial transactions. The Office also supervises the activities of outside counsel who may be...
Harvard University's Office of the General Counsel is responsible for all the legal work arising from the activities of Harvard’s Faculties and departments. Our mission is to render timely and thoughtful advice on the broad range of legal issues that the University, its faculty, and administrators confront on behalf of the University.
The Office is organized on the model of a small law firm. Each University Attorney is both a generalist capable of handling a wide variety of legal matters and a specialist with particular expertise in certain key...
Though structured into four operating groups - Financial, Operational & Compliance audit (FOCA), Information Systems audit (IS), Risk & Audit Strategy (RAS), and Risk Finance and Insurance, the Risk Management and Audit Services Department (RMAS) looks at risk from a broad perspective. Its primary mission is to provide independent and objective assurance through the delivery of value-added services. Working collectively, RMAS evaluates operational practices and the control environment to advise business leaders on effective risk mitigation...
Opening Presentation This presentation outlines the RMAS organization, charter and mission, the types of audits we perform and our audit process. The presentation is given at the beginning of each of our audits to set expectations for the department and to better explain the details of the process.
IT Governance An IT Governance audit evaluates an IT organization’s strategic and operational alignment with its enterprise’s business strategy, ensuring that IT is supporting the...
