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Legal Department
Mission
The mission of the Legal Department is to provide timely, high-quality, and professional legal services in a cost-effective and responsive manner that enables and assists tribes and employees' efforts to enhance the health and safety of our communities and the quality of life of tribal members.
Vision
The legal department provides high-quality, reliable and timely legal advice and customer service to the tribes, the organization and employees through our advisory, legislative, litigation, and contract review functions.
Values
• Efficiency |
• Reliability |
• Proactivity |
• Professionalism |
• Reliability |
• Responsiveness |
• Support for Tribal Sovereignty
& Self-empowerment |
Goals
- We will serve tribes, departments and staff effectively by being proactive and continue providing quality work product with reliable systems and processes.
- We are knowledgeable in numerous and varied areas of law and we continue to develop our legal skills in order to ensure that our clients have available necessary expertise, minimize outside counsel costs, enable excellence in our work and improve departmental efficiency in the delivery of legal services.
- We will develop teamwork by instituting weekly departmental meeting and a peer review process for written work-product.
- We will develop informational and guidance materials for TCC and the tribes.
- We will develop and institute systems and best practices for case and file management.
Role of the TCC Legal Deparment
The Tanana Chiefs Legal Department is concerned with legal issues facing the Interior Athabascan people. We strive to provide services at the tribal level and support the development of tribal sovereignty and self-government. While it is our concern that tribal members receive necessary legal assistance, the staff at TCC cannot provide legal advice on any personal matters. If you have questions about personal legal matters we recommend calling the Alaska Legal Services Corporation at 1-800-770-9999. They can assist you in a wide variety of personal issues such as, divorce, child-support, wills, domestic violence, child abuse, work and employment issues, landlord-tenant issues, bankruptcy, taxes, and civil and criminal justice. You can visit their website at www.AlaskaLawHelp.org .