When the woman in charge of the City of Denver’s hiring and discipline for police and firefighters experienced gender discrimination, she called Greisen Law. Our client was passed over for a promotion by a less-qualified man, at the same time her title was taken away. Despite having less experience and qualifications, her male colleague began […]
Greisen Law argued at the Colorado Supreme Court on behalf of our client, Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman who was refused service by the notorious Masterpiece Cakeshop when she tried to buy a pink cake with blue icing to celebrate her gender transition. Greisen Law’s statement on the argument: The citizens of Colorado believe that […]
Greisen Law is proud to represent Vanessa Wilson, the former Chief of Police in Aurora, Colorado. When Chief Wilson fired racist and brutal police officers who the City of Aurora had long tolerated, the City fired her. Chief Wilson’s lawsuit argues that she was fired in retaliation for her work to protect Black and Brown […]
Colorado prisons will protect transgender women from sexual abuse and provide them with required healthcare thanks to a precedent-setting settlement agreement negotiated by Greisen Law. Transgender women are typically imprisoned in male-designated prisons, subjecting them to routine sexual harassment and violence. And necessary medical treatment – such as hormone replacement treatment and gender affirming surgery […]
Paula Greisen represented Charlie Craig and David Mullins when the fought discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in the Supreme Court. USA Today published their reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative. Supreme Court 303 Creative Decision distorts religious freedom. We are no longer equal. – USA Today Before the hypothetical gay wedding case, he […]
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today threatens the civil rights of LGBTQ+ Americans, as well as decades of long-standing laws that protect people in all minority groups,” said Paula Greisen, founding partner of Greisen Law. “While we think this decision should only apply to a very narrow group of business, we have no doubt that […]
Paula Greisen filed a lawsuit on behalf of a mother and her daughters after the family learned the mother’s fertility doctor – Paul Jones of Women’s Healthcare of Colorado in Grand Junction – had performed artificial inseminations on the mother using his own sperm. Jones had told the mother that the donor would be an […]
The Colorado Attorney General found that a pattern and practice of racist police at the Aurora Police Department. After a Court orders the police department to stop its illegal practices, the new Chief of Police Vanessa Wilson vows to clean up the department. Chief Wilson then fires police officers who made racist comments, ridiculed the […]
Best Lawyers honored Paula Greisen by naming her a 2020 Lawyer of the Year in Denver. Paula Greisen – 2020 Lawyer of the Year Honoree
Across the county, thousands of transgender women are housed in male prison where they are subjected to rape and sex trafficking by male inmates. These women, most of whom have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria and receive hormone treatment, are denied the basic protections and housing provided to the cisgender community, and leave in daily […]
PERSISTENT AS HELL Paula Greisen isn’t going to wait around for someone else to enact change Published in 2019 Colorado Super Lawyers magazine By Joel Warner on March 28, 2019 Paula Greisen sits in the gallery of a federal courtroom in downtown Denver, legs crossed and hands splayed out on the wooden bench on either side of her, radiating impatient […]
Greisen Law represented a gay couple before the United States Supreme Court when a Colorado baker refused to sell them a wedding cake. Here are links to reporting about the case: ‘This happens all the time’: why a gay couple took their cake case to the supreme court | US news | The Guardian
