Edward C. Hopkins Jr.

Ed’s practice focuses on civil rights violations, defamation (including libel, slander, and trade libel), employment discrimination, invasions of privacy, and wrongful death (including malpractice). 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 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.