Ed joined Rathod | Mohamedbhai LLC (RM) to defend and uphold the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that the United States Constitution guarantees all Americans. In addition to fighting for Americans’ sacred First Amendment right to speak truth to power, Ed also fights against malicious lies that cause harm to American businesses and professionals who rely on their good names to pursue the American Dream. When governments, through their public employees, abuse the people’s powers or unjustly maim or murder Americans, Ed strives to hold them fully accountable.

Ed’s practice focuses on civil rights violations, defamation (including libel, slander, and trade libel), employment discrimination, invasions of privacy, and wrongful death. Except for his defamation practice, representing defendants and plaintiffs, Ed works exclusively for plaintiffs.

Before joining RM, Ed was a civil litigation and data privacy law partner at two large law firms, a national management-side employment law firm with more than 400 attorneys and an international full-service law international law firm with more than 700 attorneys. He also owned and operated HopkinsWay PLLC, which focused on litigating defamation law, privacy law, and social media law claims and defenses for plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts.

Ed has led and served on the boards of many community service organizations. In 2014, he began to focus his community service work primarily on mentoring diverse young students and professionals. He actively mentors dozens of entrepreneurs, investors, lawyers, military officers, and scholars, many of whom, like him, are African American men who were born into inner-city households of modest means.

Additionally, Ed formed and led a defense industry financial management and project management firm. It provided specialized consulting, management, and software development services to the Department of Defense. The firm won the Minority Enterprise Development Week (MED Week) Minority Information Technology Firm of the Year Award in 2002.

Ed is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and holds a JD from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law.