Lawyers for the Family Office in Odense

Can you make legal decisions with great significance for children and parents? Do you want to be part of solving an important societal task while being challenged and developing as a lawyer? Do you want to work with law in interaction with conflict management?

We are looking for lawyers to a newly established team in Odense, who shall help families across the country.

Family Office

In the Family Offices we help separated families strengthen the parents' cooperation 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 handling. The parents' and children's situation is often characterized by social problems and conflict. You must therefore be good at guiding about rules and practices at eye level and be able to handle conflict-filled situations.

Some of your concrete tasks will be

• hold physical and virtual interdisciplinary meetings with parents who disagree about matters concerning their children
• hold physical and virtual legal meetings with parents and their lawyers
• prepare meeting notes in the citizen meetings
• spar with the interdisciplinary team
• conduct written case processing and make interim and final decisions
• prepare case presentations when submitted to the Family Court

The team is responsible for case handling from start to finish

We work in self-organizing teams, which are interdisciplinary and consist of lawyers, child-focused advisors and administrative staff. The interdisciplinary team plans the course of each case according to the concrete family’s needs and with a focus on the child’s best interests. The team has joint responsibility for the cases from start to finish. It is therefore important that you are good at collaborating and want to work cross-disciplinary and be a good sparring partner for your colleagues, with whom you work closely.

With a lean-principles approach, we work to improve our case processes and workflows. The goal is to secure professionally relevant processes where the consideration for the child and the child’s well-being comes first, and the case handling is arranged so that families do not experience unnecessary waiting time. We value your opinion and involve you in improving our processes and workflows. Your contribution directly influences both the office’s operations and your team’s development.

Focus on quality and collaboration

To succeed in the job, you must be a capable lawyer who can work in a team as well as independently with task solutions. The position involves travel activity and work across our locations. It is therefore important that you thrive with a flexible and varied workday and are motivated to collaborate with colleagues across the organization.

It is important that, as a meeting leader in virtual meetings, you 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 handling with a focus on the citizen
• work quickly and efficiently and be 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 the meeting with the 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 tailored training program for you)
• have good IT skills

We offer

• Opportunity to use yourself and your legal competencies to make a difference for children and parents who are in a difficult situation.
• Opportunity to make interim and final decisions with authority under the rules of the Parental Responsibility Act with great direct impact for children and families.
• A job where interdisciplinary collaboration is highly valued in a dynamic and efficient office characterized by high professionalism and ongoing supervision of the task.
• Tailored training and ongoing sparring with skilled, engaged and helpful colleagues.
• An workplace where we value humor and have an informal tone.
• Focus on a good working environment and strive for a good work-life balance as part of our culture.

Contact and employment terms

Send your motivated CV and examination papers no later than 10 November 2026. This you do by clicking on ''Search for the job'' at the bottom of the page.

We review applications on an ongoing basis and also expect to hold interviews on an ongoing basis.

If you want further information about the tasks, you are welcome to contact the head of function Ulla Burgaard tel. 5163 4758 or head of function Heidi Astrup, tel. 5163 477

The employment area is the Ministry of Social Affairs with related institutions.

Employment is in accordance with the state agreement for academics concluded between the Ministry of Taxation and the academic organizations and the associated local agreements.

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