John C. Holden | Edina Employee Rights Lawyer

John Holden has over twenty-five years of experience practicing employment and business law.

John Holden has experience advising employers in how to comply with anti-discrimination laws, accommodation and leave laws. He provides businesses with counsel on hiring and firing procedures, developing employment policies and handbooks, and dealing employment contracts.  John Holden has handled hundreds of EEO investigations for large corporations and worked resolving employee complaints.  He has also worked with corporations to develop strategies to ensure corporate compliance with state and federal employment laws.  John Holden also represents individuals, managers and executives with emloyment contracts, independent contract agreements, non-compete agreements and severance agreements.  

John Holden has represented businesses in commercial lease negotiations.  These negotiations involve retail space and commercial office space.  John Holden is able to provide his business clients with favorable lease terms which avoid litigation and provide economic savings to his clients.  His firm can help you review, draft and negotiate commercial property leases and agreements both for the tenant and landlord.

John Holden has represented business and individuals before administrative agencies and in both state and federal courts.  He has worked as in-house counsel for a international transporation company and as a contract attorney for a large airline.  He offers a select number of businesses general counsel legal services on a flat fee basis.

John Holden is a graduate of William Mitchell College of Law and did his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Owner	Holden Law Firm	Edina, MN	1999 - Present
Of Counsel	Connor Satre & Schaff, PLLC	Cambridge, MN	1997 - 1999
General Attorney	CP Rail		1987 - 1997

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
William Mitchell College of Law	J.D.	Law School	1987
University of Wisconsin, Madison	B.A	Political Science, History	1982

State / Court	Date
Minnesota	1987

• Minnesota State Bar Association
  Hennepin County Bar Association
  Society of Human Resource Management

• BV Rated Martindale-Hubbell 2014

• Dietrich v. Canadian Pac. Ltd., 536 N.W.2d 319, 324 (Minn.1995). Practice Area: Employment & Labor Date: Aug 25, 1995 Outcome: Landmark case decided in favor of Employer Description: Employee sued employer for age discrimination, reprisal, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The District Court, Hennepin County, Franklin J. Knoll, J., granted summary judgment for employer, and employee appealed dismissal of discrimination claims. The Court of Appeals, 522 N.W.2d 386, John F. Thoreen, Acting J., reversed and remanded. The Supreme Court, Stringer, J., held that: (1) when job is eliminated as part of bona fide reduction-in-force (RIF), employee must make some additional showing of age animus in order to establish prima facie case of age discrimination; (2) employee's job was eliminated in RIF; (3) employee failed to make such an additional showing; (4) employee suffered no age discrimination with regard to training and hiring opportunities; and (5) employee failed to establish prima facie case of reprisal.

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