About Donovan Kochman LLP

Donovan Kochman LLP is a small litigation firm in Toronto, founded in 2018 by Brendan Donovan and Noah Kochman. The firm's office is at 2 St. Clair Avenue West in the city's Deer Park area, and it takes on estates and trust disputes, estate planning and administration, mediation, and civil and commercial litigation for clients across Ontario. Its estates litigation work covers will challenges, power of attorney and guardianship disputes, executor removal applications, dependant's support claims, and elder abuse matters, while its commercial side handles contract, shareholder, and partnership disputes, professional negligence claims, and defamation.

The team includes partners, counsel, associate lawyers, and law clerks, totalling roughly 18 people. One lawyer at the firm practises in immigration law alongside estates and civil litigation, and another is fluent in Mandarin Chinese in addition to English. Several of the firm's lawyers are listed in Best Lawyers in Canada and ranked by Lexpert, and Best Law Firms named the firm to its 2025 Trusts and Estates rankings for Toronto and nationally. A lawyer at the firm has also chaired the Advocates' Society's estates litigation practice group.

In the community

  • One of the firm's counsel serves as Vice-Chair of Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, a settlement agency for refugees and immigrants.
  • One of the firm's counsel is a member of the Refugee Lawyers Association.
  • Firm lawyers regularly speak at continuing education programs for the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association, and the Estate Planners' Council of Halton, covering topics such as powers of attorney, will drafting, litigation guardians, and elder law.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Law schools
Dalhousie University, Osgoode Hall Law School, Queen's Law School, University of Toronto 4 of 10 lawyers
Languages on the roster
Cantonese, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese

Where to find them

2 St. Clair West, Suite 1703, Toronto, ON, M4V 1L5 · 416-800-1062

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