About Legal Affairs | Division of Legal, Compliance, and Audit

The Office of Legal Affairs is Rochester Institute of Technology’s in-house corporate legal office.

We provide legal advice, counseling, training, and service to RIT, representing the university on all legal matters arising out of its activities. When addressing existing and potential legal matters, the Office of Legal Affairs coordinates and supervises all legal services for the university, ensuring that they meet the highest standards for the RIT community in order to help RIT achieve its mission. We consistently provide strong, vigorous, and reasoned legal advocacy.

In addition to representation on existing and potential legal matters, the Office of Legal Affairs reviews contracts to protect RIT’s interests and ensure risks and liabilities are minimized, advises the RIT community on all games of chance and prize giveaways conducted on campus to ensure compliance with state and federal law, and is the responsible office the Privacy Policy and the RIT Privacy Officer.