Jacob Sand

Practice Areas

Jacob Sand is head of the firm's Labour & Employment practice group. Jacob specialises in a broad range of employment law issues. Having worked for more than 3½ years as a Legal Secretary at the European Court of Justice and having acted as an active advocate before the EU Court, Jacob has state-of-the-art knowledge and understanding of all aspects of EU employment law. Jacob Sand combines this knowledge with profound insight into collective labour law. This means that he is one of the most widely used litigators in Labour Court cases.

Jacob Sand has conducted numerous arbitration and court cases before the Supreme Court, Labour Court and other tribunals, including industrial tribunals. Jacob advises clients in a wide variety of different industries, for instance energy, transportation, financial services providers, telecommunications and media. In addition, he has acted as referee in the Danish Entrepreneurship award and as assessor to the former director of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) in the investigation committee (Tibetkommissionen) established by the Danish Minister of Justice.

Career

Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel since 2008

Gorrissen Federspiel 2005 -

Bech-Bruun Dragsted 2002 - 2005

Legal Secretary with the European Court of Justice, 1998 - 2002

Aros Advokater 1995 - 1998

Bech-Bruun & Trolle 1992 - 1995

Professional Memberships

The American Bar Association (ABA)

European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)

Danish Association of Experienced Supreme Court Litigators

The Danish Labour & Employment Association