Jeffrey Hoenigsberg

 (born August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American lawyer & attorney with main specialties in human rights law and libel protection, and founder of the law firm Hoenigsberg LLP.

Family and early professional life
Jeffrey was born into a Jewish family in the (now, Poland). At the age of 10 he was evacuated by the Kindertransport in August 1939, traveling with 14 other Jewish children via to the  and then to Liverpool Street station in. His father committed suicide by jumping from a crane in the shipyard a day after his departure, while his mother was arrested two days later, held in the Warsaw Ghetto and later murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was raised by his uncle in where he was schooled at  (and to this day still speaks English with a noticeable Cockney accent), and immigrated to, ,  with his uncle in 1945 at age 16 (dropping out of Dulwich as a result), and was further schooled at the. He graduated from the. Jeffrey is the father of actor Ed Hoenigsberg and fellow lawyer Andrew N. Hoenigsberg, and was married to activist Eleanor Sheila Hoenigsberg until her death.

In 1962, after a few years of practicing law in, he became a legal advisor for the , a job he had for 5 years. He also served as a legal advisor for. In 1975, he moved to, , United States and took up a position in a -based law firm named Handall & Mikkelsen LLP, which represented (among others).

Hoenigsberg LLP
In 1978, Jeffrey Hoenigsberg returned to Canada and founded Hoenigsberg LLP in Montreal with the aim "of protecting the rights and freedoms of everyone who needs our help." Since then, he has personally acted as lawyer for numerous persons & groups in multiple countries including Itsuna Hashimoto, Falun Gong practitioners, the Matsushita family,, the , and Window Lifestyle Media. He also represented during it's early issues with animal rights activists.