Rukiya Mohamed is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement, Mass Tort, Product, and Consumer Litigation, and Digital Transformation groups in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
Rukiya’s practice includes counseling large companies in risk-assessment and regulatory compliance and representing large corporate clients and individual clients on complex civil litigation issues; criminal investigations; congressional investigations; and due diligence issues. She also counsels clients on regulatory matters with the CPSC, NHTSA, DOJ, SEC, and other agencies. Rukiya’s recent experience includes:
- Counseling a large American e-commerce company on risk-assessment, regulatory compliance, and distracted driving, including counseling on NHTSA's regulations and voluntary guidance.
- Counseling a major international auto parts manufacturer on compliance with global regulations.
- Assisting in an international government contractor’s defamation and tortious interference lawsuit.
- Assisting a Class 1 railroad in litigations arising from derailments.
- Successful representation of a large health care company in a putative class action lawsuit, resulting in dismissal of class claims.
- Conducting due diligence review for major international auto parts manufacturer.
- Represented a multi-national government contractor with a large congressional investigation.
- Successful representation of an automotive manufacturer with appellate defense of formerly dismissed putative class action lawsuit involving car hackability, resulting in affirmance of dismissal.
- Assisting individual clients with criminal inquiries by the DOJ and the SEC, and representation in securities fraud class action and derivative suits.
Rukiya is also active in pro bono matters, and has successfully secured asylum for several clients fleeing from persecution. Rukiya was recently honored for her pro bono work with Crowell & Moring's George Bailey pro bono award. Rukiya is also an active participant in Crowell & Moring's tutoring partnership with the Thurgood Marshall Academy, a D.C. public charter school and the first law-themed school in D.C.
Rukiya earned her B.A. from the State University of New York University at Albany, cum laude and her J.D. from Howard University School of Law, cum laude, where she was a merit scholar. Rukiya served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. And, while attending Howard, Rukiya served as a senior notes and comments editor for the Howard Law Journal and worked as a student attorney in the Howard University School of Law Criminal Justice Clinic, where she represented indigent clients charged with criminal misdemeanors, including representing an indigent client on a three-count, two-day, criminal bench trial. She also created and presented a Know Your Rights training program for D.C.’s homeless population.
Affiliations
Admitted to practice: District of Columbia, Maryland
Speeches & Presentations
Publications
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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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"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: Christopher A. Cole, Cheryl A. Falvey, John Fuson, David Ervin, Lauren Aronson, Carolyn W. Wagner, Matthew Cohen, Rebecca Baden Chaney, Chalana N. Damron, Robbie Rogart, Rukiya Mohamed, Kate M. Watkins
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