[accordion title="Legal%20Resources%20for%20NRECA%20Voting%20Members"]One of the many ways that OGC supports NRECA voting members is through OGC attorneys researching, monitoring and addressing legal issues and developments impacting or potentially impacting electric cooperatives. The legal resources OGC provides include long-standing, trusted resources such as the NRECA Legal Reporting Service, National Legal Update, and the NRECA Legal Seminar which is the premier seminar designed specifically for electric cooperative legal professionals.

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[accordion title="Electric%20Cooperative%20Bar%20Association%20(ECBA)"]OGC supports the role of attorneys in the efficient, effective, and lawful governance and operations of electric cooperatives through administration of the Electric Cooperative Bar Association (ECBA) – a professional network of nearly 800 attorneys and paralegals who represent the interests of NRECA's member cooperatives.[/accordion] 

[accordion title="NRECA%20Member%20Resolutions%20Process"]OGC manages the Member Resolutions Process – the grassroots process through which NRECA’s voting membership adopts policy statements to provide the association guidance and direction in advocating for electric cooperatives in Washington, D.C.[/accordion] 

[accordion title="Benefit%20Plan%20Compliance%20for%20NRECA%20Voting%20Members"]OGC provides a variety of benefit plan compliance services for members, as well as for NRECA and its owned and affiliated entities. OGC answers hundreds of members' questions, seeking to fully support and protect the cooperatives' business interests, and help maintain compliance for the NRECA Group Benefit Program and NRECA-sponsored retirement plans.[/accordion] 

[accordion title="Securities%20Compliance%20and%20Risk%20Management"]The Homestead Funds’ securities compliance and risk management programs are managed by OGC, as are the risk management programs that help protect NRECA, its owned and affiliated entities, and Touchstone Energy^® Cooperative.[/accordion] 

[accordion title="Internal%20Operations"]OGC is responsible for legal aspects of the association, including governance, compliance, risk management, internal audit, and court litigation. As part of a complex trade association, this includes OGC attorneys representing a variety of entities, from the NRECA Group Benefits Program and retirement plans, to the not-for-profit Wood Quality Control, Inc. program, to charitable organizations like NRECA International and the Glenn English National Cooperative Leadership Foundation. It also includes providing legal services on multiple issues such as ERISA, contracts, human resources, intellectual property, sweepstakes and contests, data privacy matters, campaign finance, government ethics, and lobbying laws.[/accordion]