As president of the CBA, one of the issues which Dorfman had to address was compliance by lawyers with the federal regulations of professional income under the "Anti-Inflation Act", enacted by the federal Parliament in 1975. Dorfman and William Cox, the president of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada, met with the federal Justice Minister, Ron Basford, to discuss the issue. 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 said: "Lawyers more than anyone else should be concerned about upholding the law." 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. Dorfman was active in his community his entire life, particularly the Jewish community in Winnipeg. He was an executive member of the Young Men's Hebrew Association and the President of the Winnipeg branch of B'nai B'rith. He was also a Board member for the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, and served a term as President of the Shaarey Zedek Brotherhood. In 1964, he was one of the founding incorporators of the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba, a non-profit corporation for charitable, educational, and cultural purposes. 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. He later said that this work was one of the most significant events in his life. He also served on the Joint Distribution Committee of the Canadian Jewish Committee for Refugees, and helped to raise $30,000 for that group. He also helped raise funds for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 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). He was also on the board of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Dorfman died in 1993, at the age of 85. He was still working at Thompson Dorfman Sweatman, and was said to have taken a file with him to hospital to work on the day he died.