Areti Georgopoulos ’05

Attorney/Owner, Harmony Law Firm, PLLC

Degrees

  • Brown University, B.A.
  • University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.

Areti Georgopoulos teaches the Employment Law Clinic, supervising student attorneys representing applicants for unemployment benefits before the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. A magna cum laude graduate of Brown University and a cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, she served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Inequality and published an article on the detention of immigrant children.

Georgopoulos currently represents employees (and occasionally, employers) in a broad range of employment issues at Harmony Law Firm, PLLC, which she founded in 2012. In addition to unemployment insurance matters, she handles claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, and retaliation pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Minnesota Human Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the Minnesota Whistleblower Act, among others. She advises employees on employment contracts, including severance and settlement agreements. She is a Board Member of the Employment Lawyers Association of the Upper Midwest and a Member the Minnesota Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, serving on the Amicus Committee.

Employment Law Clinic