About Janet L.
Janet L. Heins earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville in 1984. She went on to law school at the University of Wisconsin, receiving her J.D. in 1991. Those years set the stage for a career rooted in courtroom work and regulatory practice.
She began practicing in 1991, working first at O’Connor & Thomas and then at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the General Counsel. A year later she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Ralph Adam Fine at the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. After that clerkship she returned to private practice, joining McLario, Helm & Bertling in 1995. In 1997 she launched Heins Law Office LLC, and in 2016 she reorganized her practice as Heins Employment Law Practice LLC, known as HELP, where she is the founder and managing partner. She is admitted to practice in Wisconsin and before the Seventh Circuit, and she is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her professional engagements extend beyond the office. She holds memberships in the American Bar Association, the Seventh Circuit Bar Association, the Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association, the Milwaukee Bar Association and the Ozaukee County Bar Association. She has been a speaker for the Milwaukee Bar Association and the National Employment Lawyers Association, and she served as co-chair of the Wisconsin Employment Lawyers Association. Those roles reflect regular involvement in continuing legal education and bar activities.
Throughout her career she has concentrated on employment law matters. That concentration is reflected in the name and structure of her firm and in the subjects she addresses when speaking to professional groups. Her work includes handling workplace disputes and advising clients on employment-related questions. She directs HELP as its managing partner and maintains an active docket in employment law, including litigation and counseling. She focuses on employment law matters in her current practice.
