Founded in 1926, Kugler Kandestin is a premier boutique law firm located in Montréal, Québec.
Our size, small by design, affords us the flexibility to deliver creative, cost-effective results. At the same time, given our track record of success, we regularly go toe to toe with Canada’s largest firms, obtaining precedent-setting judgments and settlements for our clients in all of our practice areas.
Our distinguished reputation in the legal community and our client list are testaments to our standards of excellence and to the level of importance we attach to every case we handle and every transaction we oversee.
We practice civil and commercial law, specializing in the following areas:
- Current Class Actions
- Kugler Kandestin files class action against the City of Gatineau for incarcerating unhoused persons for unpaid fines
- Kugler Kandestin files Application for Authorization to Institute a Class Action against the Attorney General of Quebec for unlawfully detained persons
- Kugler Kandestin files Application for Authorization to Institute a Class Action in connection with sexual abuse committed by Philip (Hart) Baugniet while he was a director and teacher at F.A.C.E. School and Victoria School in Montreal
- Kugler Kandestin files an Application for Authorization to Institute a Class Action against the Marist Brothers
- Kugler Kandestin helps Inuit youth in Nunavik bring class action against governments of Canada and Quebec over discriminatory underfunding
- Agreement in Principle reached with the Federal Government for $20 billion to compensate First Nations youth and their families.
- Depuy ASR hip implants class action
- Class Action against L’Unique Assurances Générales Inc. for failing to indemnify dental clinics for their business interruption losses due to COVID-19
- Kugler Kandestin authorized to file class action on behalf of the victims of sexual assault committed by former hockey coach François Lamarre
- Class action authorized against Les Soeurs de la Charité and the CIUSSS de la Capitale-Nationale
- Attorneys
- Pierre Boivin
- Alexandre Brosseau-Wery
- Jean-François Carpentier
- William Colish
- Jeremy Cuttler
- Mélissa Des Groseilliers
- Michael Gaon
- Danica Garner
- Claudia Giroux
- Jonathan Gottlieb
- Gerald F. Kandestin
- Michael H. Kay
- Gordon Kugler
- Robert Kugler
- Stuart Kugler
- Gordon Levine
- Jérémie Longpré
- Sandra Mastrogiuseppe
- Emily Painter
- Éva Richard
- David Stolow
- Arthur J. Wechsler