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Rachel Dober

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Rachel Dober

Counsel

Washington DC + 1 202 663 6204

Rachel Dober helps clients navigate complex investigations and provides strategic counsel to clients facing high-stakes crises. Ms. Dober has represented clients in connection with numerous government investigations, including those conducted by Congress, the US Department of Education (DOE), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the New York State Attorney General, and state agencies. 

Ms. Dober’s institutional clients span a range of industries, including pharmaceutical and healthcare, finance, higher education, logistics, retail, and social media. Ms. Dober has also represented multiple individuals, including high-level government officials, responding to public investigations. Her litigation experience includes representing public companies and hedge funds facing securities class action and contract litigation in federal and state court. 

Ms. Dober also maintains an active pro bono practice. She focuses on representing veterans and has successfully advocated for compensation under the Combat Related Special Compensation and the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance Traumatic Injury Protection programs.

Ms. Dober was a member of the firm’s Coronavirus Task Force. She also presented a client CLE program on CARES Act enforcement issues. 

Ms. Dober previously worked in the Solicitors Office of the US Department of Labor. Before earning her law degree, she joined the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Outstanding Scholar Program, where she worked in the Constitutional and Specialized Tort Litigation Section and received the Civil Division Special Commendation Award. Ms. Dober also served as an AmeriCorps volunteer, where she worked on service projects including fighting forest fires and restoring low-income apartments. 

Experience

  • Investigations

    • Representing a leading biotechnology company facing a Senate investigation into pricing and preparing the company’s CEO for congressional testimony.
    • Conducting an audit for a multinational company, assessing company initiatives, marketing strategies, political contributions, and environmental and sustainability programs.
    • Representing a large government contractor responding to Federal Election Commission matters under review and a related congressional investigation.
    • Representing a major consumer products company responding to a congressional inquiry into its business operations, including advertising and marketing practices.
    • Assisting a prominent university responding to a DOE inquiry into foreign gifts and compliance with Section 117 of the Higher Education Act.
    • Representing a global company facing a US House Committee investigation into the transfer US nuclear technology.
    • Representing a multinational corporation in connection with multiple Senate and House inquiries and a hearing related to government use of private detention facilities.
    • Preparing a Fortune 50 company representative to testify in parallel Senate and House Committee hearings related to high-profile accidents.
    • Preparing the CEO of a major financial service company to testify in a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee.
    • Advising a Fortune 10 company about potential congressional investigations related to a healthcare business unit.
    • Representing a global financial institution in a DOJ, Internal Revenue Service and US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) inquiry regarding offshore banking and possible tax avoidance by US taxpayers.
    • Counseling a global financial institution in connection with a high-profile anti–money laundering investigation by the PSI and other governmental entities.
    • Advising a senior foreign official in connection with US inquiries relating to the United Nations "Oil for Food" program.
    • Representing a nonprofit credit counseling entity in connection with a PSI investigation and hearing concerning tax status issues and alleged deceptive consumer practices.

  • Regulatory Affairs

    • Representing Lucent Technologies with respect to the CFIUS review of its merger with Alcatel.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 2001

      Editorial Board Member, Virginia Law Review, Dillard Fellow, Mentor, Virginia Law Women

    • BA, Psychology, College of William and Mary, 1994

      cum laude

  • Admissions

    • District of Columbia

Credentials

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