Lawyers for the Family Office in Aabenraa

Can you make legal decisions with significant implications for children and parents? Do you want to contribute to solving an important societal task while being challenged and developing as a lawyer? Do you want to work with law in interplay with conflict management?

We are seeking lawyers for a newly established team in Aabenraa to help families across the country.

Family Office

In the Family Offices we help separated families strengthen the parents' collaboration about the child through a mentalizing and conflict-handling approach, where the child's well-being is at the center. Our tasks include meetings with parents and children about custody, residence, and visitation, as well as making decisions.

Your tasks

The daily work is a mix of virtual meetings with parents and written case processing. The parents' and children's situation is often characterized by social issues and conflict. You must therefore be good at guiding about rules and practices at eye level and able to handle conflict-filled situations.

Some of your concrete tasks will be

• hold virtual cross-disciplinary meetings with parents who disagree about matters concerning their children
• hold virtual legal meetings with parents and their lawyers
• prepare meeting notes in the citizen meetings
• provide sparring in the interdisciplinary team
• perform written case processing and make interim and final decisions
• prepare case summaries when brought before the Family Court

The team is responsible for the case handling from start to finish

We work in self-organizing teams, which are interdisciplinary, consisting of lawyers, child-issue advisors, and administrative staff. The interdisciplinary team plans the course of each case based on the concrete family's needs and with a focus on the child's best interest. The team has a shared responsibility for the cases from start to finish. It is therefore important that you are good at collaborating and eager to work interdisciplinary and be a good sparring partner for your colleagues, whom you work closely with.

With a basis in lean principles we work to improve our case processes and workflows. The goal is to ensure professionally relevant processes where the consideration of the child and the child’s well-being comes first, and the case processing is organized so that families do not experience unnecessary waiting times. We value your input and involve you in improving our processes and workflows. Your contribution has a direct impact on both the office's operations and your team's development.

Focus on quality and collaboration

To succeed in the job you must be a skilled lawyer who can work in a team as well as independently with task solutions.

It is important that you, as a meeting facilitator in virtual meetings, can be constructive in situations characterized by emotions, crisis reactions and sometimes high conflict levels. Finally, you must be strong in written legal work.

Therefore it is important that you

• have a passion for delivering high-quality case processing with a focus on the citizen
• work quickly and efficiently and are good at prioritizing so we can help as many families as possible
• are ready to participate in optimizing and developing our processes
• can collaborate in a team with openness and constructiveness and build strong relationships with colleagues
• can handle conflict situations and ensure the legal method and quality in meetings with parents in situations characterized by emotions, crisis reactions and sometimes high conflict levels
• have knowledge of family law or the social sector or wish to acquire knowledge in the area (we arrange a more tailored training program for you)
• have good IT skills
• when needed, have the possibility to travel to other locations and hold physical meetings

We offer

• Opportunities to use yourself and your legal competencies to make a difference for children and parents who are in a difficult situation.
• Opportunities to make interim and final decisions based on the provisions of the Parental Responsibility Act with significant direct impact on children and families.
• An environment where interdisciplinary collaboration is valued highly in a dynamic and efficient office characterized by high professionalism. You will receive ongoing supervision of the task.
• A tailored training and ongoing sparring with skilled, engaged and helpful colleagues.
• An workplace where we value humor and have an informal tone.
• A focus on a good working environment and striving for a good work-life balance as part of our culture.
• Employment in accordance with the agreement for academics in the state concluded between the Ministry of Taxation and the academic organizations and the related local agreements.

Contact and employment terms

Send your motivated CV and exam papers no later than 10 November 2026. You do this by clicking on 'Apply for the position' at the bottom of the page.

We expect to hold interviews on an ongoing basis.

The position is 37 hours per week.

The employment area is the Ministry of Social Affairs with its related institutions. Travel activity to other locations of the Family Law House may occur.

If you would like further information about the tasks, you are very welcome to contact the function manager Gitte Jessen, tel. 9133 4692 or function manager Henriette Jeppesen, tel. 9359 9987

You can also read more about the Family Law House here or meet one of our employees here .