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John J. Janssen is a highly regarded litigation, education law, and employment attorney, and serves as a Managing Partner for the law firm. Over the course of 28 years of practice, John has earned the trust of clients in helping them navigate complex transactions or resolving disputes in the board room, administrative proceedings, the courtroom, and alternative dispute resolution settings across a broad range of issue areas.
Beginning his litigation career as a staff attorney for the Thirteenth Texas Court of Appeals, John has represented clients in the court room in cases involving public education law, finance contracts, premises liability, negligence, products liability, fiduciary duty, oil and gas receiverships, medical malpractice, special education, trade secrets, and construction defects. In his education law practice, he routinely provides counsel to clients in a wide variety of issue areas and has successfully represented school districts in proceedings before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), U.S. Department of Justice—Civil Rights Division (DOJ), U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Texas Workforce Commission—Civil Rights Division (TWC), Texas Education Agency (TEA), and Texas Attorney General’s Office. John also served for five years as the General Counsel for the Office of Legal Services at the Corpus Christi Independent School District, where he managed hundreds of cases, issues or matters presented to the Office and managed a staff of legal professionals.
John regularly speaks on education law topics at various professional conferences or as part of administrator trainings. Topics he has addressed in conference presentations or trainings for administrators include: student online speech and the First Amendment; student cell phone searches and the Fourth Amendment; compliance with federal civil rights laws protecting students from discrimination and harassment; employee use of social media; Title IX; handling employment and student/parent grievances; preventing workplace harassment; and the Safe Schools Act.
John has published articles in a variety of publications, including The Review of Litigation, Inquiry &Analysis, and the State Bar of Texas School Law Section Newsletter, and the State Bar of Texas Litigation Section’s News for the Bar. He also is the author of a book on American constitutional development, Constitutional Equilibria, published by University Press of America. John also has taught undergraduate courses at various colleges or universities and served as a Teaching Fellow for undergraduate courses in constitutional law while a graduate student at Yale University.
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