Mr. Wigdor, a New York employment lawyer who represented the hotel maid in the sexual assault case against the former I.M.F. chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has brought a number of cases against Fox, including a race, gender and pregnancy discrimination and hostile work environment suit; a class-action racial discrimination suit; an additional gender discrimination suit; and the defamation lawsuit filed last week. (Mr. Wigdor’s firm also represents clients in a racial discrimination suit against The New York Times.) Mr. Wigdor received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, cum laude, where he was a member of the Varsity Tennis Team; a Master’s Degree from Oxford University in England; and his Juris Doctor from Catholic University School of Law in Washington, D.C.