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Denise K. Drake, Polsinelli
Staff Report//July 9, 2025//
Attorney, Kansas City
Denise Drake co-chairs Polsinelli’s employment class and collective actions group, which handles cases nationwide and led her to be admitted to the bars of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa.
Her practice ranges from defeating nationwide class action cases to helping employers avoid litigation in the first place.
She is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Attorneys and has held leadership positions on committees of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section and the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. Missouri Lawyers Media honored her with a Litigation Practitioner Award at the 2019 Women’s Justice Awards.
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