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Janelle L. Ariota

Associate

Overview

Janelle provides strategic legal counsel to individuals and businesses facing a broad range of corporate legal challenges. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes, workplace challenges, corporate governance matters, and private wealth and succession planning issues. She is committed to delivering responsive, practical solutions tailored to each client’s goals.

My Practices

  • Janelle represents individuals and businesses in state and federal courts in a wide variety of disputes, guiding clients at every stage from initial assessment to resolution.


  • Janelle counsels clients of all sizes on employment-related matters, including discrimination and harassment allegations, workplace handbooks, and hiring and termination procedures.


  • Janelle specializes in corporate and transactional matters such as entity formation, corporate governance, compliance issues, and contract drafting and negotiation.


  • Janelle advises individuals and business owners on succession and wealth planning tools that support long-term business continuity, organizational transitions, and intergenerational wealth transfers.  

Credentials

Education

Campbell University School of Law, J.D., cum laude; 2025, Membership Editor, Campbell Law Review

University of Puget Sound, B.A., 2021, cum laude

Admissions

North Carolina

Newsroom

Publications

The Inherent Harm of Employment Discrimination: What Behavioral Economics Teaches Us About Title VII’s Adverse Action Requirement, 47 CAMPBELL L. REV. 77 (2025).  

  • 2,850
    2,850 miles from my hometown outside of Seattle
  • 3
    3 favorite hobbies: reading, hiking, and caring for houseplants
  • 1
    1 habit of tracking small victories and moments of gratitude
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