Georgia Ainsworth is an associate in Kean Miller’s New Orleans office. She joined the firm in 2019 and practices with the business and commercial litigation groups. Georgia has successfully represented individual and corporate clients in complex contractual, mass tort, and personal injury matters, and has a decade of experience in Louisiana state, and federal, district and appellate courts. Georgia is licensed in both the State of Louisiana and her home province of Ontario, Canada.
Georgia sits on the ELLA Project’s Board of Directors and is a member of the 2022 class of Pathfinders of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD).
Georgia earned her B.A. from Dalhousie University in 2007. She earned her J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 2013 with a certificate in international and comparative law. During her time in law school, Georgia was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Legal Professionalism, the David L. Herman Award, the Pro Bono Award, and the General Maurice Hirsch Award. In 2018, Georgia earned a Global Professional Masters of Law, Canadian Law Concentration, from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
- Louisiana, 2013; Ontario (Canada), 2021
- New Orleans, Louisiana State and Federal Bar Associations; Law Society of Ontario; DRI; 2022 Pathfinder, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD)
- The New Toxic Tort: Update on Benzene Contamination in Consumer Products, ABA Products Liability Committee Newsletter, Spring 2023
- Benzene in Sunscreens Could be the Next Big Toxic Tort, Law360, August 10, 2021
- Louisiana Supreme Court Holds Adopted Children Have Right of Action for Death of Biological Family Members, Louisiana Law Blog, January 26, 2021
- Speaker, Saving Cambodia’s Antiquities on the Ground and in the Courts, Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter’s CLE
- Board of Directors, The Ella Project
- Committee Member, World Trade Center of New Orleans, International Business Committee and Energy Committee
- Volunteer, New Orleans Bulldog Rescue
- Committee Member, Magnolia Ball, Ogden Museum of Southern Art
- Member, Friends of Lafitte Greenway
- Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans, Class of 2015