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The POWER List 2023: Patricia A. Konopka
Staff Report//July 12, 2023//
Stinson, Kansas City
Patricia Konopka has extensive experience in employment-related litigation, ranging from defending companies accused of wage and hour law violations to securing an injunction when employees of an accounting firm formed a competing business in violation of their noncompete agreements.
Konopka co-chairs her firm’s diversity and inclusion committee, helping the firm to create a chief diversity and inclusion officer position.
She also is a founder of the Heartland Diversity Legal Job Fair in Kansas City, which works to get underrepresented groups into the practice of law. Missouri Lawyers Media honored her work at the 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Awards.
The POWER List: Employment Law 2023
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