ActionLaw.net and Action Employment Law are the names for a law firm headed by "Zamboni John" Scannell. "Zamboni John" achieved notoriety as the colorful Zamboni driver for the Seattle Thunderbirds hockey team in the early nineties. He now practices law in Seattle Washington, where he is a general practitioner who specializes in employment law and civil rights. He has a long history of achieving significant results through the legal system.

Between 1973 through 1975 he founded several tenant unions in Seattle and filed some of the first cases in the then new, Residential Landlord Tenant Act in Washington.

Between 1973 through 1993 he worked for the City of Seattle and for several shipyard firms. He was a shop steward in two different locals and served three years representing approximately 5,000 City employees on the Seattle Civil Service Commission. In 1975 he filed a multimillion dollar class action lawsuit against the City of Seattle regarding intermittent and temporary workers. After two trips to the Washington State Supreme Court, the suit was eventually won in 1989 resulting in approximately $40 million in damages to thousands of City employees. The suit has served as a model for similar class action lawsuits filed all over the country against employers who deny workers their rights by affixing a "temporary" label on them.

In 1990 he blocked the building of a $100 million arena for Seattle Supersonics owner Barry Ackerly, taking the case to the Washington State Supreme Court.

In 1996 he won a published opinion in the Washington State Supreme Court, which allowed indigent civil appellants to file an appeal to the appellate courts without immediately paying a filing fee.

Recently he has won larger and more numerous settlements over denial of civil rights during Seattle's 1999 WTO demonstrations than any other attorney in Seattle.