62 TAXATION AWARDS 2021 AMERICAS | USA to implementation, tax opinions to document and protect tax structuring for complex M&A, and related planning to ensure that her clients achieve and maintain the SALT results they seek. Over the past two decades, Janette has handled complex income tax litigation by successfully combatting illegal assessments involving constitutional issues, inappropriately imposed apportionment methods, complicated disputes over the utilization of separate return net operating losses, and multistate disputes over non-business income resulting from the divestitures of going concerns in explosives, major credit card companies, telecommunications, information technologies, transportation, and publishing industries. She has handled property tax disputes involving outrageous assessments based on erroneous overvaluations, misclassifications, and discrimination for agricultural and mining properties, major manufacturing facilities, apartment complexes and large city office buildings. She has litigated sales/ use tax exemption cases involving the construction, real estate development, manufacturing, IT, food services (airlines and restaurant chains), pharmaceuticals, and other industries, settling many of these cases favorably at the court house steps. Professor Lohman For 18 years, Janette shared her SALT knowledge with others through her former roles as an adjunct professor of SALT at both SLU Law and WashU Law’s LLM program. Janette has helped many of her students publish articles in the national SALTperiodicals, and has occasionally sponsored a “real client” for her students to represent, pro bono. In 2006, Janette received SLU’s university-wide Faculty Excellence Award. Janette has written and given more than 250 SALT or ethics presentations at seminars sponsored by not-for-profit SALT organizations including the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (“IPT”), the Council on State Taxation, the Tax Executives Institute, Inc., Associated Industries of Missouri, the New York University Summer Tax Institute, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) Committee on SALT, the Hartman SALT Forum (“Hartman”), the Georgetown Law Center, the National Multistate Tax Symposium (“NMTS”), and the Independent SALT Alliance (“ISA”). She has published dozens of articles in Tax Notes – State and other SALT periodicals, formerly served as an editor for the ABA’s Property Tax Deskbook, and authored a chapter in the ABA’s publication, Careers in Tax Law. SALT Professional Activities If there is a SALT organization, Janette has likely held one of its leadership positions. In July 2021, Janette completed her 4 years’ officers’ rotation on the Board of Governors for the IPT, the largest national SALT organization, with over 6,000 members. Janette also holds the IPT’s CMI (Sales Tax) and CCIP (Credits and Incentives) designations, and serves on the IPT’s CCIP Examination and Outreach Committees. She currently serves on the ABA SALT Committee’s Executive Committee as liaison to the IPT, on the board of ISA, and on the Advisory Boards for NMTS, Hartman, and Tax Notes – State. Since 2005, Janette has enjoyed continuous recognition from “Best Lawyers”, “Super Lawyers”, and Martindale Hubble. Janette was elected to the American College of Tax Counsel (“ACTC”) in 2012, and currently serves as ACTC’s Regent for the 8th Circuit. Janette’s more recent distinctions include selection as one of 14 Influential Women in Tax Law by Law360 (2019); selection as Lawyer of the Year for Litigation & Controversy – Tax in St. Louis by Best Lawyers (2020), and induction into the Order of the of the Fleur de Lis, Alumni Honorary Society of SLU Law (2020). FIRM PROFILE Thompson Coburn is a full-service law firm with 375 attorneys practicing in more than 50 areas, with offices in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Southern Illinois, St. Louis, and D.C. In 2019, the firm was recognized by the Association of Corporate Counsel as an ACC Value Champion. Thompson Coburn was also the recipient of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s 2019 George B. Vashon Innovator Award, a recognition for organizations who have made extraordinary strides to support diverse attorneys. For 13 consecutive years, the firm earned a perfect score for LGBTQ workplace equality in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index, and has received “Gold Certification” by WILEF for seven consecutive years. In 2020, Thompson Coburn received Mansfield 3.0 Certification Plus status and has committed itself to re-certification in 2021 for Mansfield 2021. “In 1998, one of the U.S.’s largest financial institutions retained Janette to, not only help monetize its excess Missouri tax credits, but also to take the credit transferability concept to other states.”
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