

Georgina Hartono
LawyerGeorgina Hartono is an analytical, pragmatic, and creative advocate who prioritizes the careful consideration of sophisticated issues to achieve the best practical and strategic outcomes for her clients. Her practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation, class actions, and alternative dispute resolution, and she regularly acts in matters involving complex legal issues and the management of extensive documentary and expert evidence.
In parallel to her litigation practice, Georgina advises clients on risk management in alignment with their overall business goals. She provides strategic advice on identifying and mitigating legal and regulatory exposure, while balancing compliance efforts with operational needs.
Georgina advises and represents large corporations and institutions in various industries, notably telecommunications, financial services, technology, mining, and air transportation. She also advises a broad range of clients with respect to copyright and trademark matters.
Additionally, Georgina is actively involved in her community by serving on the Board of Directors of the Legal Information Clinic at McGill, where she previously worked as Executive Director.
During her studies at McGill, Georgina was awarded the Scarlet Key Award for her outstanding leadership and contributions to the McGill community and the I. Ballon Memorial Medal for her work as Executive Editor of the McGill Law Journal. Concurrently with her law studies, she completed a minor in Computer Science.
- Representing a leading, highly specialized mining equipment manufacturing company in complex litigation regarding alleged design defects of machinery involving various stakeholders in a mining development project.
- Representing corporations in the telecommunications, financial services, and insurance industries in consumer class actions.
- Representing and advising an air carrier in a class action and other disputes pertaining to pricing policies, conditions of transportation, and damage claims, in consideration of the specialized applicable legal and regulatory framework.
- Representing and advising a university in a class action, injunction proceedings, investigations conducted before an administrative tribunal, and other matters pertaining to civil liberties.
- Representing a group of former board members in the context of litigation against a public company.
- Acted for an American life sciences company to obtain the execution of a rogatory commission.
- I. Ballon Memorial Medal, 2020
- Scarlet Key Award, 2020
- J.W. McConnell Scholarship, 2016
Professional associations
- Young Bar of Montréal, Member, since 2022
- The Advocates’ Society, Member, since 2021
Community involvement
- Legal Information Clinic at McGill, Member of the Board of Directors and of the Finance, Management and Communications Committee, since 2023
- Co-author: “Bug in the Bot: Businesses’ Liability for False or Misleading Representations by Their Chatbots – A Québec Perspective (Part I)”, March 27, 2024
- Co-author: “Brouiller les frontières entre histoire et fiction : un commentaire sur l’arrêt Winkler c. Hendley" [Blurring the boundaries between history and fiction: a case comment on Winkler v. Hendley], Les Cahiers de propriété intellectuelle, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2022, p. 167-180.
B.C.L./J.D., with a minor in Computer Science, McGill University, 2020