Yiorgos L. "George" Koliopoulos

Yiorgos Koliopoulos is an employment litigation and counseling attorney. His practice focuses on trade secrets, restrictive covenants, employee mobility, and corporate discrimination defense litigation and counseling in a variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, education, healthcare, staffing, commercial construction, energy, insurance, aerospace, government contracts, ship repair, transportation, and food. Yiorgos has handled numerous matters which ended in favorable outcomes for clients at all stages, including early resolution of cases, arbitration and litigation.

Yiorgos also helps companies draft and enforce confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-competition and other restrictive covenant agreements and policies to mitigate risks.

He advises clients on a broad range of labor and employment matters, including Title VII, 1981, age discrimination, fair labor standards, family and medical leave, the WARN Act, and wrongful discharge. Yiorgos helps develop and manage company policies, employment contracts, employment handbooks, terminations and reduction in force plans and executive employment agreements. Yiorgos has presented numerous on-site and virtual training seminars for supervisors and management personnel on a variety of labor and employment issues.

He counsels employers on Americans with Disabilities Act matters, including those involving disability accommodations, building and facility access and defense of employment discrimination claims. He also provides advice and counseling regarding the Fair Labor Standards Act and Title VII, and he advises employers on the requirements of the Family Medical Leave Act, the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Yiorgos also helps clients navigate both Federal and state Fair Housing Act issues, including fair housing discrimination claims and assessing potential FHA liability for housing providers.

Yiorgos has extensive experience representing businesses throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. When businesses have to deal with suspect actions of their directors and/or employees, Yiorgos has represented companies in breach of fiduciary duty, confidential information and data theft, tortious interference and business conspiracy cases involving both directors and employees. In addition, Yiorgos experience serving as outside general counsel to several clients has provided him with the opportunity to train and counsel both directors and officers on how to comply with their fiduciary duties, conflict of interest and other corporate governance policies. Yiorgos has also assisted companies across a diverse set of industries in conducting internal investigations to manage and mitigate risks.

For clients seeking help navigating commercial litigation, including business and employment tort litigation, Yiorgos provides counsel from the pre-filing stage through settlement negotiations and trial. He represents clients in litigation matters in Virginia state court, including regulatory proceedings, investigations, and administrative matters. Yiorgos also represents clients in federal court, including in multidistrict complex litigation matters, such as trade secret, employment and commercial disputes.

Yiorgos is fluent in Greek, which enables him to assist Greek companies operating in the U.S. Yiorgos has been named among Virginia’s “Legal Elite” by Virginia Business Magazine. Yiorgos was also selected to the 2023 “Virginia Rising Stars” list for labor and employment law. According to its publisher, only 2.5% of attorneys in Virginia receive this distinction.

He earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Richmond School of Law, where he was the vice president of the Student Bar Association and a member of the Client Counseling & Negotiation Executive Board. He earned both his Master of Arts degree in international commerce and policy and his Bachelor of Arts degree from George Mason University.