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The POWER List 2023: Ferne P. Wolf
Staff Report//July 12, 2023//
Silverstein Wolf, St. Louis
Ferne Wolf began her career working for the attorney who successfully argued the landmark employment-discrimination case McDonnell Douglas v. Green in the U.S. Supreme Court.
She’s gone on to set precedents of her own, including a 2006 Missouri ruling that held that plaintiffs only had to prove that discrimination was a “contributing factor” in what happened to them at work. Lawmakers enacted a stricter standard in 2017 that overrode the case.
Wolf also secured a 1997 opinion from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that recognized a claim for same-sex sexual harassment based on stereotypes.
The POWER List: Employment Law 2023
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