Rukiya Mohamed’s knowledge and experience in high-stakes class action litigation and investigations enable her to provide top-of-the-line strategic guidance to clients as they navigate the complex demands of regulatory investigations, criminal prosecutions, and complex litigation.
Rukiya’s practice includes counseling large companies, executives, and other individuals in risk assessment and regulatory compliance with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other agencies. She also regularly represents clients in consumer class actions and multidistrict litigation. Rukiya is a thought leader in the firm’s Autonomous Vehicle practice and has authored numerous published articles and moderated and presented on this subject as regulations, guidance, and laws continue to develop.
Rukiya is also active in pro bono matters and was honored for her pro bono work with Crowell & Moring’s George Bailey pro bono award. She has successfully secured asylum for several clients fleeing persecution, and she continues to zealously represent clients in immigration matters and criminal defense. Rukiya serves on the firm’s Pro Bono Immigration Committee and is also an active member of its Pro Bono Racial Justice Taskforce.
While in law school, Rukiya interned for the Hon. Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She served as a senior notes and comments editor for the Howard Law Journal and as a student attorney in the Howard University School of Law Criminal Justice Clinic, where she represented indigent clients charged with criminal misdemeanors and developed and presented a Know Your Rights training program for D.C.’s homeless population.
Representative Matters
Class Action and Torts Litigation
- Representing universities against putative class action suits for refund of tuition and fees based on their move to online instruction in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Assist Class 1 railroad in litigations arising from derailments, including successful defense against a putative class action suit for purely fear and anxiety and emotional distress damages without physical harm, resulting in a grant of summary judgment, and denial of plaintiffs’ motion to alter or amend.
- Successful representation of a large health care company in a putative class action lawsuit, resulting in dismissal of class claims.
- Successful representation of an automotive manufacturer with appellate defense of formerly dismissed putative class action lawsuit involving car hackability, resulting in affirmance of dismissal.
- Representing a large logistics provider in recovery litigation arising from Multi-District Litigation on defective engines.
- Assist in an international government contractor’s defamation and tortious interference lawsuit.
Investigations and Regulatory Counseling
- Represent a multi-national government contractor with a large congressional investigation with the U.S. Congressional Oversight and Government Reform Committee and related internal investigation, and advising company with respect to whistleblower retaliation claims asserted by two former employees.
- Assist individual clients with criminal inquiries by the DOJ and the SEC and representation in securities fraud class action and derivative suits.
- Counseling a major international auto parts manufacturer on compliance with global regulations.
- Counseling a large American e-commerce company on data security and product liability risks, regulatory compliance, and distracted driving, including counseling on NHTSA’s regulations and voluntary guidance.
- Counsel raw materials manufacturer on risk-assessment and supplier liability in novel contexts.
Speeches & Presentations
Publications
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"Enforcement in the New Normal: Recent Trends in State AG Enforcement," Crowell & Moring’s Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
(October 14, 2021).
Author: Rukiya Mohamed.
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"Want To Develop A Risk-Management Framework For AI? Treat It Like A Human." VentureBeat
(September 19, 2021).
Authors: Michael K. Atkinson, and Rukiya Mohamed.
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"Who’s Behind The Wheel? What Regulators Expect For AV Technology," Automotive World
(September 13, 2021).
Authors: Rebecca Baden Chaney, and Rukiya Mohamed.
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"NHTSA Proposes Rule On Safe Deployment Of Self-Driving Vehicles," The Journal Of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law
(May-June 2021).
Authors: Rebecca Baden Chaney, and Rukiya Mohamed.
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"NHTSA Continues Its Focus on Advancing Autonomous Vehicle Technologies," Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law
(January 2021).
Authors: Cheryl A. Falvey, Rebecca Baden Chaney, and Rukiya Mohamed.
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"Anticipate Gov't Subpoenas Of Your Zoom Recordings," Law360
(April 23, 2020).
Authors: Daniel L. Zelenko, Nimi Haim Aviad, John E. Davis, Rukiya Mohamed and Bridget Carr.
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"Prosecutions of Trade Secret Theft by Former Employees in Autonomous Vehicle Development," Crowell & Moring’s Trade Secrets Trends
(April 1, 2020).
Authors: Rukiya Mohamed and Astor Heaven.
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"Race to Automation: Prosecutions of Trade Secret Thefts in Emerging Transportation Technologies," Crowell & Moring's Trade Secrets Trends
(June 27, 2019).
Authors: Rukiya Mohamed and Raija Horstman.
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"Restrictive Covenants in the Seventh Circuit," Crowell & Moring's Trade Secrets Trends
(April 11, 2019).
Authors: Rukiya Mohamed and Julia Milewski.
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"CPSC Withdraws Material Misrepresentation Claim against Michaels Stores in Shattered Vases Case," Crowell & Moring's Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
(April 24, 2017).
Authors: Matthew Cohen, Rukiya Mohamed and Stephanie L. Crawford.
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"Death by Cop: The Lessons of Ferguson Prove the Need for Special Prosecutors," Howard Law Journal
(2015).
Author: Rukiya Mohamed.
Client Alerts & Newsletters
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"Déjà Vu: The Lessons of Solyndra & What Energy Companies Can Expect Under the 118th Congress,"
Environment & Natural Resources Law Alert
(January 27, 2023).
Contacts: Tyler A. O'Connor, Byron R. Brown, James G. Flood, Rukiya Mohamed
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"Silence Isn’t Golden: Failure to Report Consumer Product Safety Issues Results in Rare $91 Million Criminal Penalty,"
Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation Alert
(November 5, 2021).
Contacts: Cheryl A. Falvey, Matthew Cohen, Rukiya Mohamed
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"NHTSA Proposes Rule on Safe Deployment of Self-Driving Vehicles,"
Administrative Law Alert
(March 24, 2021).
Contacts: Rebecca Baden Chaney, Rukiya Mohamed
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"NHTSA Seeks Guidance on Regulating the Safe Deployment of Self-Driving Vehicles,"
Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation Alert
(December 7, 2020).
Contacts: Rebecca Baden Chaney, Rukiya Mohamed
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"NHTSA Continues its Focus on Advancing Autonomous Vehicle Technologies,"
(June 25, 2020).
Contacts: Rebecca Baden Chaney, Cheryl A. Falvey, Rukiya Mohamed
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"NHTSA Announces Historic Proposal to Modernize Vehicle Safety Standards,"
Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation Alert
(March 19, 2020).
Contacts: Rebecca Baden Chaney, Daniel T. Campbell, Cheryl A. Falvey, Scott L. Winkelman, Rukiya Mohamed
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"Congress Moves Forward on Bipartisan Autonomous Vehicle Bill,"
Regulatory Alert
(November 7, 2019).
Contacts: Cheryl A. Falvey, Laura Foggan, Rukiya Mohamed, Scott L. Winkelman
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"Autonomous Vehicle Incidents: Where Things Are Going in Liability Allocation,"
Regulatory Alert
(July 13, 2018).
Contacts: Cheryl A. Falvey, Laura Foggan, Rukiya Mohamed
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"Humanless Self-Driving Cars to be Tested for the First Time on California’s Public Roads,"
Corporate Alert
(March 6, 2018).
Contacts: Chahira Solh, Rukiya Mohamed
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"Recent Happenings in Advertising & Product Risk Management – December 2017,"
Advertising & State AG Alert
(December 20, 2017).
Contacts: Cheryl A. Falvey, John Fuson, David Ervin, Matthew Cohen, Rebecca Baden Chaney, Robbie Rogart Jost, Kate M. Watkins, Rukiya Mohamed
Firm News & Announcements