Zainab N Ahmad

Zainab is co-chair of both the firm’s National Security and Workplace Misconduct Investigations Practice Groups, and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Labor and Employment, and Privacy & Cybersecurity practice groups. Her practice focuses on representing companies and Boards of Directors in connection with conducting workplace misconduct and white collar crime-related investigations, as well as representing clients facing regulatory and civil litigation challenges, such as lawsuits involving employment discrimination claims and investigations by the DOJ, SEC, DOL, NY Attorney General and other agencies.

Zainab worked for the Department of Justice for over a decade before joining private practice. She was an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the National Security & Cybercrime section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, during which time she earned several awards and accolades for her work on extraterritorial terrorism investigations and other national security matters. During her tenure at DOJ, Zainab was seconded several times to Washington, D.C., serving in 2016 as Counselor for Transnational Organized Crime and International Affairs and in 2017 as Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General where she was responsible for supervising about 70 prosecutors in three sections within the Criminal Division at Main Justice. She also served as a Senior Assistant Special Counsel in Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s Office from 2017 to 2019.