Cassandra Sutter

About Cassandra

Cassandra Sutter is a Partner at JSS Barristers with extensive civil litigation experience across commercial disputes, contractual disputes, fraudulent conveyance and enforcement claims, property litigation, professional negligence, landlord-tenant disputes, class actions, defamation, and employment. She has acted as lead counsel for trial at the Court of King's Bench and the Alberta Court of Appeal, including in an arbitral dispute that secured an $80-million award, and is currently co-counsel in a high-profile class action arising from decades of sexual exploitation and assault involving the Calgary Stampede. Originally from Medicine Hat, Cassandra earned her JD from the University of Calgary with Dean's List standing and her BA with Distinction in philosophy and psychology from the University of Alberta, and worked as a rail traffic controller before law school. She first joined JSS Barristers as a summer student in 2012 and was called to the Alberta bar in 2014. Cassandra has been named a Benchmark Litigation Future Star and 40 & Under Litigator, and received Pro Bono Law Alberta's Above and Beyond Award in 2018.

Education & credentials

Undergraduate

University of Alberta, BA (Distinction), Philosophy and Psychology, 2008