Dorfman described the committee as giving "active and serious consideration" to the question of public protection within a streamlined, up-to-date Companies Act.
[5] As a member of the Canadian Bar Association, in 1973 Dorfman was credited with introducing a CBA resolution calling on the federal government to protect the privacy of taxpayers' personal information.
The resolution stated: "It is a fundamental principle of Canadian law that no person should be compelled other than on a privileged basis, to provide evidence against himself except in specifically defined circumstances.
Dorfman advised that the CBA would urge its members to comply with the Act, consistent with the ethical requirements set out in the codes of conduct of the law societies.
He added that if the federal Anti-inflation Board found that an individual lawyer was not complying with the Act, that would be a matter for discipline by the relevant provincial law society.
[8] During World War II, Dorfman was a director of the Trans-Migration Bureau of the Joint Distribution Committee in New York City, an organization dedicated to raising funds and assisting Jewish refugees to escape from Nazi-occupied portions of Europe.
[5] Dorfman was a member of the Young Men's Section of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and served as co-chairman in 1950 of the legal division of the Community Chest (now the United Way).