Legal Background and Experience

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Janet Elie Faulkner provides guidance to employers, educational institutions, hospitals and non-profit organizations.  She conducts independent investigations and serves as hearing officer for employment, faculty, Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, discrimination, disability, scientific research, and athletics matters.  Janet provides legal advice and interim counsel services to organizations with limited access to in-house counsel, or which seek to reduce the costs typically associated with outside law firms.  Janet frequently is engaged to investigate allegations involving organizational leadership or prominent faculty.  She has over twenty years of prior experience as in-house counsel for major Boston institutions.  She is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Emerson College, General Counsel

Northeastern University, Senior Assistant General Counsel 

Wellesley College, Interim Director, Nondiscrimination Initiatives / 

Title IX Coordinator / 504 Coordinator

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Employment counsel

Multiple and increasingly advanced roles, including Acting Chief of the MBTA's Labor Law Unit, Assistant General Counsel, and Labor Relations Counsel

City of Boston, Boston Public Schools, Special Assistant Corporation Counsel

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, Associate

• Cornell University, B.S., Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR)
• Boston College Law School, J.D.

• Faulkner Legal is certified as a woman-owned business by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Supplier Diversity Office
• Registered vendor in COMMBUYS, for Massachusetts state and local agencies
• Certified as mediator by JAMS/Endispute

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• State of New York
• State of Vermont
• U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
• U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court