"Dedicated to providing our clients with experienced counsel, innovative legal strategies, and a relentless commitment to achieving the results they deserve."
Georgia Ainsworth practices with the business and commercial litigation groups. Georgia has successfully represented her individual and corporate clients in complex contractual, mass tort, and personal injury matters.
Representative Experience
- Successful defense of Fortune 500 companies and in multiple personal injury/premises liability lawsuits in state and federal court.
- Experience litigating and negotiating contractual disputes involving operating agreements and commercial leases.
- Represented professional client in complex civil rights matter before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Supreme Court of the United States.
Education
- University of Toronto Faculty of Law, G.P.L.L.M., 2018
- Tulane University Law School, J.D., 2013
- Recipient, Certificate in International and Comparative Law
- Recipient, Pro Bono Award
- Recipient, General Maurice Hirsh Award
- Recipient, CALI Award (Legal Professionalism)
- Dalhousie University, B.A., 2007
Admissions
- Louisiana
- Ontario (Canada)
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships
- Member, New Orleans Bar Association
- Member, Louisiana State Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Federal Bar Association
- Member, Defense Research Institute
- Member, Law Society of Ontario
- 2022 Pathfinder, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
Articles, Publications and Presentations
- "The New Toxic Tort: Update on Benzene Contamination in Consumer Products," American Bar Association 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
- "Saving Cambodia’s Antiquities on the Ground and in the Courts," Speaker, Federal Bar Association, New Orleans Chapter’s CLE
Community Services
- Board of Directors, The Ella Project
- Member, Friends of Lafitte Greenway
- Faculty, Trial Advocacy and Pre-Trial Civil Litigation Bootcamp, Tulane University Law School, 2021-Present
- Emerging Philanthropists of New Orleans, Class of 2015