Morrison Foerster’s Political Law Group provides strategic advice and counseling to clients on a broad range of regulatory, compliance, investigatory, and enforcement matters pertaining to political law and national security. Our political law lawyers have unparalleled government and private sector experience relating to political law investigations and prosecutions across the country. We are the only law firm with a former Chief of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)—which enforces and administers FARA—and our practice group includes two former senior DOJ National Security lawyers, the former general counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Public Corruption Section Chief in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), and a former Public Corruption prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY).
FARA Counseling and Investigations
The Foreign Agents Registration Act represents a heightened area of risk for companies and individuals that work closely with non-U.S. entities, especially when those entities have non-U.S. government ownership or other significant ties to non-U.S. governments. Our practice group includes an unmatched collection of former prosecutors who enforced FARA while in government and who have successfully defended against FARA Unit investigations. Our practice group includes the former chief of the FARA Unit and other senior national security officials with extensive experience advising on FARA matters.
