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Owen focuses his practice on labor and employment law. He leads workplace investigations, advises on handbook and corporate policies, provides advice on multistate compliance issues, and presents on cutting-edge employment law issues and emerging legislation.

A recent Supreme Court decision clarified that discrimination claims brought by members of majority groups in so-called “reverse discrimination” cases cannot be subject to a heightened evidentiary burden. In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, the Court ruled that a Sixth Circuit requirement that members of a “majority group” (such as heterosexual employees) must satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard for discrimination claims was incompatible with the language of Title VII and with Supreme Court precedent. The unanimous decision written by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson resolves a circuit split, as the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and D.C. circuit courts of appeals had previously imposed a higher evidentiary burden on discrimination claims brought by majority group members.