Janelle L. Ariota
- Raleigh
- t: 919.573.2550
- f: 919.839.0304
- jariota@brookspierce.com
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
News
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).