John V Jansonius

Practice Areas

Labor & Employment; Trial & Appellate Litigation

Career

John V. Jansonius has over 40 years experience in labor and employment law. He focuses his practice on: contract and compensation negotiations and disputes with corporate officers and managers; defense of employment discrimination claims and wrongful discharge claims; collective bargaining, representation cases, and unfair labor practice claims under the National Labor Relations Act; denial of benefits claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; advising on and conducting internal investigations in hand with employers, boards of directors, audit committees, and compensation committees; and advising on employment and labor aspects of business transactions. He has represented clients in numerous jury and non-jury trials in state and federal court and has presented oral arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal circuit courts of appeals.

John is rare among labor and employment lawyers in having experience in the board room, at the bargaining table, and in the courtroom. His experience, and his current practice, ranges from counseling boards of directors of publicly traded companies to serving as counsel to company negotiating committees in collective bargaining with labor unions. Rounding out John’s practice is regular involvement as defense counsel in employment litigation and counseling management on executive and employee relations matters and compliance with federal and state labor and employment law.

John provides additional value to clients by partnering with employers, boards of directors, and compensation committees to develop and implement tailored compliance and ethics programs that reduce risk and ensure compliance in today’s increasingly regulatory climate. John also serves as a trusted adviser to these clients in the event that they find themselves conducting, or otherwise involved in, independent or internal investigations.

Few lawyers have been as long and steadily involved in the full array of labor and employment law as it has evolved over the past generation as John, and this gives him a unique ability to counsel and defend businesses in their legal relationships with executives, salaried and hourly paid employees, and labor unions.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas; Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow; Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Bar Foundation, Fellow; American Bar Association; American Bar Foundation, Fellow; American Employment Law Council (AELC), 2011-Present; College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Fellow, 2006-Present; Employment Discrimination Law treatise, Editorial Board, 2013-Present; Minnesota State Bar Association; Oklahoma Bar Association