Janet C. Ampe, Attorney

Janet is a business attorney with the firm of Henningson & Snoxell, Ltd., located in Maple Grove, Minnesota. Janet helps clients grow their businesses by handling complex business and employment issues before they become expensive situations. She develops strong relationships with clients by getting to know their businesses so she can provide proactive advice regarding relevant legal issues, and anticipate and head off problems. Her primary practice areas include:

• Employment advice and litigation
• Business advice and litigation
• Nonprofit organization advice and litigation

Janet represents a broad range of individuals and companies. She provides general corporate and employment advice to a variety of businesses, including large and small companies, as well as nonprofit organizations and religious institutions. Her experience ranges from assisting small start-up organizations to large international corporations in a variety of industries. She has worked with construction, technical, industrial, entertainment and medical services organizations, as well as churches and nonprofits, and many more. The types of services she provides for clients include:

• Providing employment advice
• Drafting and reviewing employment and commercial documents and contracts
• Incorporating organizations and nonprofits
• Corporate acquisitions and mergers
• Employment litigation defense
• Business litigation

She has represented clients in various employment and business matters stemming from discrimination laws (ADA, FMLA, Title VII, etc.), and other laws that generally affect businesses. Janet assists her clients in avoiding expensive legal disputes and in minimizing legal risks. Some specific representative areas in which Janet has assisted clients include:
Defending against sexual harassment and disability charges, both at the administrative and court levels.

• Enforcing the terms of corporate purchase agreements
• Obtaining tax-exempt status for nonprofits
• Drafting employee handbooks and contracts
• Negotiating and drafting commercial purchase agreements, on behalf of the buyer or the seller
• Training supervisors and employees to avoid discrimination charges

Before practicing law, she worked in human resource management in the insurance industry. Janet understands the pressures businesses face, and management in particular, when she develops legal and practical solutions for our clients.

Janet is a member of the North Star Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management and serves as Legislative Director on their Board. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Defense Lawyers Association and an active member of Minnesota Women Lawyers. Janet is a member of the Minnesota and Hennepin County Bar Associations, and has been recognized by the Minnesota State Bar Association for excellence in labor law and employment law. She is admitted into the state and federal courts in Minnesota and the Eighth Circuit.

She is a frequent speaker to clients and attorneys on such subjects as:

• Employment Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Best Practices for Hiring
• Best Practices and Training for New Supervisors
• Privacy in the Workplace
• The Fair Labor Standards Act
• Communication in the Workplace
• Updates on Legal Issues
• Top Ten Employment Mistakes
• Retaliation Laws Impacting Defense Lawyers

Janet has published articles on such topics as Recent Developments in Civil Procedure, Legislative Developments in Employment Law, The New Fair Labor Standards Act Rules, and Recent Developments in Employment Law.

Janet's volunteer activities include serving as an officer in her local elementary school PTO, serving as a director for a local nonprofit child care co-op, organizing clothing drives, serving as a high school mock trial judge, and assisting in various church and community activities.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Janet received her law degree from William Mitchell College of Law, summa cum laude, where she was an Executive Editor of the William Mitchell Law Review. She received her B.S. from the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, summa cum laude. Prior to joining Henningson & Snoxell in 2005, Janet practiced law with a large Minneapolis employment law firm. She lives with her family in Maple Grove.