MoFo Grows National Security Practice With Another OFAC Hire

Morrison & Foerster has hired a former senior treasury official who led development of the U.S. government’s sanctions policy against Russia, in the firm’s latest move to beef up its national security practice.

MoFo announced Tuesday it’s added Michael Dobson from the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, where Dobson served as senior sanctions policy advisor.

Dobson, who will be of counsel in the firm’s Washington office, helped implement policy towards Russia, as well as countries in the Western Hemisphere including Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.

“Mike’s decision to join our national security practice makes MoFo among the only firms in ...