Cybersecurity lawyer Michael Bahar will soon be headed to Afghanistan for his third overseas deployment with the U.S. Navy in the last 15 years.

But this will be the first time his service to the country will interrupt his time in private practice: Washington, D.C.-based Bahar, a longtime adviser to both the executive and legislative branches, joined Eversheds Sutherland to lead its U.S. cybersecurity team in 2017.

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