On Thursday, August 28th, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law hosted Brock Dahl, an expert national security attorney with both public and private sector experience, for a practical career workshop, “Unwritten Rules & Early-Career Success in National Security and Cybersecurity Law.” This interactive session explored career-building strategies you won’t learn in law school. This event touched on navigating tricky professional situations, practical advice on career path decisions, and tips for standing out in national security, cybersecurity, and emergent technology law. The session concluded with an open Q&A and actionable takeaways you can implement immediately.

Biography

Brock Dahl is a partner in the Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley offices of Freshfields. There he focuses on guiding clients through complex national security, cybersecurity, advanced technology development, data privacy and strategy, and regulatory issues. Brock was previously the Deputy General Counsel for Operations at the National Security Agency, and worked for the U.S. government in Baghdad, Iraq and on the Afghanistan Interagency Operations Group. Brock has authored pieces and often speaks publicly on legal strategy regarding a variety of national security and cybersecurity topics. Brock has written extensively on combatting organized criminality in transitional environments. He has also authored a fiction novel on pre-civil war Lebanon, titled The Third Force.

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