GeorgiaHill Smith
Associate
International Employment Law
ghillsmith@seyfarth.com
Georgia is passionate about partnering with employers across multiple jurisdictions to deliver practical and commercially sound legal solutions to their people matters.
More About Georgia
Georgia has experience working in both Australia and London, advising clients on employment law and industrial relations matters across multiple jurisdictions. She helps employers navigate the complexities of differing regulatory frameworks and cultural considerations in an increasingly globalised world. As global companies strive to streamline processes and align practices across geographies, her legal guidance is essential to ensuring compliance while driving operational efficiency and supporting strategic objectives.
Georgia’s international perspective is strengthened by time working in-house on secondment, where she gained first-hand insight into business operations and the judgment calls required to balance legal risk with commercial priorities. This experience enables her to provide pragmatic advice that reflects both legal requirements and real-world business needs.
Georgia advises clients across a wide range of industries with various employment and industrial relations matters—both litigious and nonlitigious. This mix of experience ensures she is well equipped to support her clients through complex legal issues, from workforce restructures to contentious employment disputes.
Georgia approaches challenges with creativity and empathy, drawing on her media background and pro bono work, and thrives on collaborating with colleagues and clients to deliver legal solutions that are practical and people-focused.
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
Georgia’s international perspective is strengthened by time working in-house on secondment, where she gained first-hand insight into business operations and the judgment calls required to balance legal risk with commercial priorities. This experience enables her to provide pragmatic advice that reflects both legal requirements and real-world business needs.
Georgia advises clients across a wide range of industries with various employment and industrial relations matters—both litigious and nonlitigious. This mix of experience ensures she is well equipped to support her clients through complex legal issues, from workforce restructures to contentious employment disputes.
Georgia approaches challenges with creativity and empathy, drawing on her media background and pro bono work, and thrives on collaborating with colleagues and clients to deliver legal solutions that are practical and people-focused.
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
- BA, University of Adelaide
Media - LLB (Second Degree Hons), University of Adelaide
- An Australian legal practitioner admitted in South Australia
- Not admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales
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Georgia is passionate about partnering with employers across multiple jurisdictions to deliver practical and commercially sound legal solutions to their people matters.
More About Georgia
Georgia has experience working in both Australia and London, advising clients on employment law and industrial relations matters across multiple jurisdictions. She helps employers navigate the complexities of differing regulatory frameworks and cultural considerations in an increasingly globalised world. As global companies strive to streamline processes and align practices across geographies, her legal guidance is essential to ensuring compliance while driving operational efficiency and supporting strategic objectives.
Georgia’s international perspective is strengthened by time working in-house on secondment, where she gained first-hand insight into business operations and the judgment calls required to balance legal risk with commercial priorities. This experience enables her to provide pragmatic advice that reflects both legal requirements and real-world business needs.
Georgia advises clients across a wide range of industries with various employment and industrial relations matters—both litigious and nonlitigious. This mix of experience ensures she is well equipped to support her clients through complex legal issues, from workforce restructures to contentious employment disputes.
Georgia approaches challenges with creativity and empathy, drawing on her media background and pro bono work, and thrives on collaborating with colleagues and clients to deliver legal solutions that are practical and people-focused.
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
Georgia’s international perspective is strengthened by time working in-house on secondment, where she gained first-hand insight into business operations and the judgment calls required to balance legal risk with commercial priorities. This experience enables her to provide pragmatic advice that reflects both legal requirements and real-world business needs.
Georgia advises clients across a wide range of industries with various employment and industrial relations matters—both litigious and nonlitigious. This mix of experience ensures she is well equipped to support her clients through complex legal issues, from workforce restructures to contentious employment disputes.
Georgia approaches challenges with creativity and empathy, drawing on her media background and pro bono work, and thrives on collaborating with colleagues and clients to deliver legal solutions that are practical and people-focused.
Our Australian practice operates as Seyfarth Shaw Australia, an unincorporated legal practice. Legal services provided by Seyfarth Shaw Australia are provided only by the Australian legal practitioner partners and employees of Seyfarth Shaw Australia.
- BA, University of Adelaide
Media - LLB (Second Degree Hons), University of Adelaide
- An Australian legal practitioner admitted in South Australia
- Not admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales
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Seyfarth Named International Employment Law Team of the Year by IEL, Additionally Ranked in IEL Global Elite 2025
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- Co-Author, “Updated SFO Guidance: Familiar Framework, Sharper Focus—Timing Is Everything,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)
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- Co-Author, “Lessons from Australia: Preparing UK Employers for the New Sexual Harassment Prevention Duty,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 23, 2024)
- Co-Author, “Global Trends CEOs Can’t Ignore: The New Era of Harassment Prevention,” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 29, 2024)
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- Co-Author, "Welcome to Part 1 of our series on strategy in the workplace," Workplace Law & Strategy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 24, 2022)