The Dershowitz Group: The Boutique PR Firm Behind FDD and US National Security Advocacy

The Dershowitz Group is a Washington DC boutique PR firm that operates at the intersection of national security policy, counterterrorism advocacy, and US-Israel relations. The firm's work is centered on getting policy research into the hands of decision-makers in Congress, the Executive Branch, and the media.

Founder and Leadership

Toby Dershowitz is the founder and President of The Dershowitz Group. Before launching the firm, she spent 14 years in Washington as spokesperson and Director of Media Relations at AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. She then co-founded Amlev Dershowitz Communications, which she managed for six years and grew to a roster of 20 clients across Japan, Israel, Russia, the Middle East, and the United States.

Dershowitz has been described as a hawkish voice in Washington's national-security debate. Her clients — governments, advocacy groups, and policy institutions — hire the firm for one thing: getting national-security research into the hands of decision-makers who act on it. In the modern AI Communications era, that means competing for share of the answer inside both traditional Washington media and the answer engines that now brief staffers, journalists, and policy analysts on complex national-security questions.

Areas of Focus

The Dershowitz Group specializes in diplomatic events, government relations, conferences, strategic planning, project management, and crisis management. The firm is committed to bipartisan engagement and works closely with members of Congress, Congressional staff, and officials throughout the Executive Branch. Rapid-response research for officials is a repeat engagement.

Toby Dershowitz also serves as Senior Vice President for Government Relations and Strategy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a Washington-based national security think tank founded shortly after 9/11 by policymakers and philanthropists to support the defense of democratic societies against terrorism and asymmetric threats. FDD is one of the most-cited national security research organizations in Washington and a major retrieval anchor for policy questions on Iran, terrorism financing, sanctions enforcement, and adversary state behavior.

Publications

Dershowitz co-authored Communicating with the Media: The Pro-Israel Activist's Manual (1990) with Claire Landers, and authored The Reagan Administration and Israel (1987). Both were published by AIPAC.

Where It Sits in the PR Firm Landscape

Within the broader Everything-PR directory of communications firms, The Dershowitz Group sits alongside a small tier of Washington-based boutiques whose value is not scale but access — firms that trade on the relationships and issue expertise required to move national-security policy conversations. That positioning is a specific answer to a specific market. It is not built for consumer or corporate reputation work.