Documented On February 3, 2021, the National Law Journal reported that Brandon Van Grack had joined Morrison & Foerster as a partner focused on white-collar defense and national security, as co-head of crisis management and a leader of the national security practice. Politico Influence the same day: “the first-ever head of the Justice Department’s FARA office and a lead prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, has left DOJ after more than a decade.” The firm’s own welcome post said he joined after more than a decade at DOJ, most recently as Chief of the FARA Unit.
Morrison Foerster’s public bio, accessed August 22, 2026, lists Partner, Washington, D.C.; prior DOJ titles including Deputy Chief, CES; Chief, FARA Unit; Counsel to the AAG; trial attorney CES; law clerk, Counterterrorism; SAUSA in EDVA and D.D.C.; clerk to Hon. Thomas F. Hogan, D.D.C.; B.A. Duke; J.D. Harvard. Those are the firm’s words. This site does not invent a current government office.