Georgina Gray's documented formation took place in Sydney, New South Wales, where she studied arts and law at the University of New South Wales. Her legal training there preceded her admission to the bar in 1982 and her subsequent work in Sydney's legal profession.
Georgina Gray studied at the University of New South Wales, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws. The university was established in Sydney in 1949 as the New South Wales University of Technology, and its predecessor institutions had been founded to meet growing demand for technical skills as the state's economy became increasingly industrial.
The university was first housed on the main site of Sydney Technical College, whose origins lie in the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts founded in 1833, before it moved to a Kensington campus. It was renamed the University of New South Wales in 1958, when it broadened from a technology-focused institution into a generalist university.
Her admission to the bar of New South Wales took place in 1982.
Georgina Gray's documented professional career centres on Freehill, Hollingdale & Page, where she worked as a partner. The firm traced its origins to a Sydney practice established by Bernard Austin Freehill in 1871, and it became Freehill Hollingdale & Page in 1947, when the partnership of the Hollingdale brothers and Brian Page was combined under that name.
Under Brian Page's direction the firm expanded into corporate and commercial practice within Australia and internationally. In 1979 it formed Australia's first national law partnership with Muir Williams Nicholson & Co of Perth, and in 2000 its state partnerships were combined into a single national partnership under the name Freehills. The firm later merged with the international firm Herbert Smith in 2012 to form Herbert Smith Freehills.
