Nævnenes Hus seeks lawyers for socially important tasks

Are you freshly graduated, in the process of completing your master's degree in law, or are you a more experienced lawyer? Do you want an exciting career where you use your legal knowledge in practice, take responsibility from the start and work with skilled and dedicated colleagues? Then seize the opportunity to obtain a meaningful job in a strong legal environment where ambition and collaboration are top priorities!

Your tasks at Nævnenes Hus

In a democratic rule-of-law state it is natural that disagreements about law or facts arise between citizens, companies and authorities. The independent, court-like boards that Nævnenes Hus's Secretariat serves contribute to solving these disagreements within their areas of competence.

Nævnene therefore play an important role in the Danish legal system as they contribute to safeguarding the rule of law and to building trust between citizens, businesses and authorities. As a jurist in Nævnenes Hus you will prepare and draft decisions for the boards so they can make correct decisions in due time. At Nævnenes Hus there is an opportunity to try your hand at a wide range of legal areas and work in depth with the law within specific areas.

In Nævnenes Hus, which is an agency under the Ministry of Industry, currently about 160 lawyers and around 30 law students are employed. Nævnenes Hus's Secretariat serves 18 court-like boards in the form of both appeal boards, disciplinary boards and private law dispute boards. In addition, the agency is responsible for an administrative appeal body and a mandatory mediation body.

We are currently seeking staff primarily for one of our two areas of expertise, Planning, Building & Economy. If you have experience with or an interest in our other area, Environment & Energy, you are also welcome to apply.

You can read more about the specific tasks of the areas here

Planning, Building & Economy

The area consists of four teams that together handle the secretariat services for 11 independent court-like boards, the Building Complaint Unit and the Mediation Team for Consumer Complaints.

The many different boards and units provide a broad legal field. We work, among other things, with planning and building law, consumer law, property law, mediation and corporate law and handle disputes, disciplinary cases and complaints about authorities' decisions. In addition, we have a larger unit that handles complaints about access to documents under the Public Administration Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Act.

The work thus ranges from complaints about municipalities' decisions under planning and building legislation to handling consumer complaints and commercial law cases. The broad professional area means that there are good opportunities to work with different legal issues and to develop one’s professional skills across legal areas.

Environment & Energy

The area consists of four teams that serve the Environmental and Food Appeals Board, the Planning Board and the Energy Appeals Board. These teams handle complaints about decisions made by municipalities and state authorities in areas such as nature, environment, planning, energy, agriculture and food. In addition, the area handles a large number of cases concerning green transition.

If you have questions or want to hear more about everyday life and the different areas, contact team leader Camilla Distler Lützner at tel. 72 40 58 38 or team leader Katrine Stærdahl Vad at tel. 72 40 59 91.

Read and see more about working at Nævnenes Hus at: https://naevneneshus.dk/karriere/

We offer

Nævnenes Hus is a unique workplace for you as a lawyer. We have gathered many lawyers and legal specialties under one roof, which means that as an employee you can try your hand at many different areas of law during your career, depending on your professional interests. Our professionally strong legal environment also gives us the opportunity to offer you solid professional mentoring from your experienced colleagues and board chairs who are judges or legal professors.

At Nævnenes Hus we place great emphasis on professional and personal development. Therefore all employees have ongoing development discussions with their immediate supervisor, based on an individual development plan. The development discussions focus on your professional ambitions in the short and long term.

With us we prioritize an open, ambitious and inclusive work environment, where we in teams and across the house help each other on the way – especially as a new colleague. We prioritize accessible leadership, flexibility and work-life balance, including good opportunities for remote work. We have an active staff association that contributes to a good collegial community in the house.

As a new employee at Nævnenes Hus you will go through a thorough introduction to your new tasks. We develop an introduction program for you so that you are well equipped to participate in the daily life at Nævnenes Hus.

Your profile

• Be or become educated cand.jur. or cand.merc.jur.
• You work methodically and solution-oriented with legal issues
• Have strong written communication skills
• Have an interest in working with administrative law
• Want to contribute to the professional and social environment and value collaboration with feedback and sparring as a natural part of it

Application and employment

We are ambitious about the important societal task we solve at Nævnenes Hus. Therefore we place a great emphasis on ensuring that we find the right match for our positions.

How to apply for the position: we do not want a traditional application, but you should instead answer the three questions in the application form and upload your CV and examination papers from both the bachelor's and master's programs no later than Thursday 5 November 2026 .

We expect to conduct first interviews in week 46 and second interviews in week 47.

Case and tests will be used in the recruitment process.

Start date is 15 January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. We offer both permanent and temporary positions.

Employment is in accordance with the applicable collective agreement between AC and the Ministry of Finance. This is a full-time position as a legal trainee or senior consultant depending on qualifications.

For questions about salary and terms of employment you can contact HR recruitment partner Liv Brøgger Baagø on tel. 91 33 70 88.

The place of work will be Toldboden 2, 8800 Viborg – just a few minutes' walk from the bus and train station.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Want to know more?

Read more about Nævnenes Hus here: https://naevneneshus.dk/