Murad Hussain is a partner at Arnall Golden Gregory LLP and serves as the firm’s Chair of Foreign Agents Registration Act (“FARA”) Compliance. Professor Hussain represents healthcare providers, life sciences companies, multinational businesses, and others in criminal prosecutions, government-facing litigation, administrative proceedings, and related government and internal investigations. He also advises clients on matters involving alleged healthcare fraud, the False Claims Act (“FCA”), the Anti-Kickback Statute, FARA, export controls, sanctions, and customs and tariff laws. A recognized thought leader on government enforcement and compliance issues, Professor Hussain frequently writes and speaks on the FCA, FARA, healthcare enforcement, and emerging regulatory developments.

Across his practice, Professor Hussain has successfully defended his clients in federal criminal jury trials, won dismissals of FCA suits, negotiated declinations and other favorable resolutions of complex government investigations and litigation, and pursued affirmative litigation against the government to vindicate clients’ rights. His notable public representations include successfully defending a political donor in a joint bribery trial with a U.S. Senator; winning the full acquittal by jury of a prominent Virginia surgeon following a criminal healthcare fraud trial; and representing a former Acting FBI Director in his wrongful termination lawsuit and securing a settlement fully restoring his retirement status and benefits.

Professor Hussain serves on the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern Virginia and was appointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia to the faculty of the Virginia State Bar’s Harry L. Carrico Professionalism Course. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ellen Segal Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Professor Hussain earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he won the Potter Stewart Prize for best moot court team and received the University President’s Public Service Fellowship. Before law school, he worked as a creative executive at a Hollywood studio-based production company.