Georgia Hargreaves is the principal of Hargreaves Family Lawyers, the Melbourne family law practice that carries her name. She holds a current Victorian practising certificate as a Principal without Trust and practises through Hargreaves FL Pty Ltd in Melbourne. Family law is the only area of practice recorded against her name on the Victorian register of lawyers, which we checked on 13 September 2026.
Her peers have ranked her in Doyle’s Guide every year since 2019, and in 2026 they moved her to the top tier. Doyle’s lists her as one of six Preeminent lawyers for parenting and children’s matters in Victoria in 2026, up from the Leading tier she held in that list from 2021 to 2025. In the same edition she is Leading in the Melbourne family and divorce list and Recommended in the Victorian list for high-value and complex property matters, which Doyle’s reserves for lawyers with a track record where “the contested net asset pool is significant”, which it puts at above AUD $100 million, or where complex commercial, property, estate planning and taxation structures have to be unpicked. Doyle’s rankings are produced by peer survey, not by this site, and this profile is not a paid placement.
Background. The firm’s own biography describes more than a decade of experience in complex litigation, covering both financial matters and arrangements for the care of children in separated families, and says she worked at two prominent Melbourne family law firms before founding her own practice. Doyle’s first listed her in 2015, 2016 and 2017 at Coote Family Lawyers; from 2019 its listings record her at Hargreaves Family Lawyers.
Her current rankings, from the 2026 editions of Doyle’s Guide. Firm affiliation is shown as published by Doyle’s. Earlier editions are set out in eleven years of Doyle’s rankings below.
Doyle’s Guide publishes separate annual lists for each practice area and state, so one lawyer can hold different tiers in different lists in the same year. Below is every published Doyle’s listing we could verify for Georgia Hargreaves, with the tier she reached in the most recent edition of each list. Each list was checked on doylesguide.com on 13 September 2026.
What changed in 2026. The parenting and children’s list is the one where her ranking has moved. Doyle’s placed her as Recommended in 2019 and 2020, Leading from 2021 to 2025, and Preeminent in 2026, alongside Briana Kotzapavlidis, Paula Leslie, Kate Mitchell, Ben Sayer and Jason Walker. Doyle’s describes that list as identifying lawyers highlighted for expertise in complex parenting and child custody disputes, including work as an independent children’s lawyer in matters involving family violence or abuse.
Her 2015, 2016 and 2017 listings name Coote Family Lawyers as her firm. (Corrected 15 September 2026: this page previously began the run at 2016; the 2015 Melbourne list also names her.) She does not appear in the 2018 Melbourne list, and the Australia-wide list has not included her since the 2024 edition. Earlier and later editions of each list were checked individually rather than inferred. See also our hub of Doyle’s-ranked Melbourne family lawyers.
Hargreaves Family Lawyers publishes the following list of matters the firm acts in. Georgia Hargreaves is its principal, and the Doyle’s rankings above place her work in the parenting and complex-property parts of it:
How the firm says it works. Its published approach is built on three words: knowledge, simplicity and sensitivity. The firm says its aim is a positive resolution “without the need for contested legal proceedings, where possible”, and opens its approach page with the line that life is too short to be embroiled in disputes. It does not publish fees or fixed-price packages.
Source: the firm’s services, approach and biography pages, reviewed 13 September 2026. Practice areas are as published by the firm. This site does not verify outcomes in individual matters.
Georgia Hargreaves is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers maintained by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry below is reproduced as it appeared on 13 September 2026.
Hargreaves Family Lawyers is a family-law-only firm of eleven people at Level 3, South Tower, 485 La Trobe Street, Melbourne. Besides the principal, the firm’s website lists two partners, Alexa Henderson and James Rundle, special counsel Penelope Charlesworth, three senior associates, two associates, a lawyer and a practice manager. Doyle’s also ranks Alexa Henderson, as Recommended for parenting and children’s matters in Victoria in 2026.
The firm itself is ranked. Doyle’s places Hargreaves Family Law in the third tier of its Melbourne family and divorce law firm rankings in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. Firm and individual rankings are compiled separately.
The entity. The practice operates through Hargreaves FL Pty Ltd, ACN 661 131 120, an Australian private company with ABN 29 661 131 120, active and registered for GST since 21 July 2022, trading under the registered business name Hargreaves Family Lawyers since 19 October 2022. Doyle’s listings carry the Hargreaves Family Lawyers name from 2019, before the current company was registered.
Source: the firm’s team page, reviewed 13 September 2026, Doyle’s Guide Melbourne family law firm rankings, and ABN Lookup, record extracted 13 September 2026.
Contact details are published by the firm and are reproduced here for convenience, reviewed 13 September 2026. Lawyer Reviews Australia is not a law firm, does not take instructions and cannot act in your matter: enquiries go to the firm direct. Georgia Hargreaves practises in Melbourne; family law is federal, so a Melbourne family lawyer can act in matters in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia wherever the parties live, subject to the firm’s own capacity.
Firm-level rating aggregated from Hargreaves Family Lawyers’s Google Business Profile, retrieved 2026-09-12. Reviews are of the firm, not an individual rating of Georgia Hargreaves. View on Google →
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