Plesner (law firm)

Plesner is a Danish law firm.[1] It was founded in 1918 and has grown through a series of mergers with other Danish law firms.[2]

Plesner
TypePartnership
IndustryLaw
Founded1918
Headquarters
Copenhagen
,
Denmark
Key people
Tom Kári Kristjánsson (Managing Partner) Nicolai Ørsted(Chairman)
Number of employees
approx. 425 (2019)
Websitewww.plesner.com

It deals with many areas of commercial law.[3] And most of its work is international in nature. The company has 61 partners, and a total staff of about 425.

History

Plesner's history traces back to a law firm founded by Poul Jacobsen in 1918. Kaj Holm-Nielsen and Mogens Plesner became partners in the firm in 1949, which later assumed the name Holm-Nielsen & Plesner. The 1980s saw the first of a series of mergers with other law firms, which has led to the current company, known as Plesner since 2004.[4]

  • 1918 – Poul Jacobsen, Attorney-at-Law, establishes the firm that later becomes Holm-Nielsen & Plesner
  • 1933 – Oskar Bondo Svane, High Court Attorney, establishes the firm O. Bondo Svane
  • 1937 – Svend Lunøe and Carl Ricard, High Court Attorneys, establish firms that later become Lunøe & Partnere
  • 1940s – Jacob la Cour, High Court Attorney, establishes the law firm la Cour
  • 1958 – Kaj Holm-Nielsen and Mogens Plesner become partners in Poul Jacobsen's law firm. The firm later changes its name to Holm-Nielsen & Plesner
  • 1964 – Bornstein & Grønborg is founded by Jørgen Grønborg and Preben Bornstein
  • 1967 – Robert Koch-Nielsen joins the law firm la Cour as a partner, and the firm changes its name to la Cour & Koch-Nielsen after some years
  • 1987 – Lunøe & Partnere becomes the umbrella name of a number of small law firms, including the firm founded by Svend Lunøe and Carl Ricard
  • 1989 – Plesner & Lunøe is established through an office amalgamation of the law firms Holm-Nielsen & Plesner and Lunøe & Partnere
  • 1990 – Koch-Nielsen & Grønborg is established through a merger between the law firms la Cour & Koch-Nielsen and Bornstein & Grønborg
  • 1997 – Plesner & Grønborg is established through a merger between the law firms Plesner & Lunøe and Koch-Nielsen & Grønborg
  • 2000 – Plesner Svane Grønborg is established through a merger between the law firms O. Bondo Svane and Plesner & Grønborg
  • 2004 – Plesner Svane Grønborg's employees all move to the newly built domicile, the "Copper Tower", at Amerika Plads 37 – and Plesner is used as a logo and the firm goes by the name of Plesner
  • 2009 – Plesner Svane Grønborg changes its company name to Plesner

In March 2020, Plesner appointed Ascertus Limited as its implementation partner, to help the organization upgrade its work document and email management systems, as well as provide ongoing support and maintenance.[5]

Corporate Social Responsibility

Plesner's CSR programme includes

  • the School Project aimed at retaining children from lesser privileged areas of Copenhagen in school and keeping them focused on continued education[6]
  • a programme for developing and retaining talented female lawyers with the goal of increasing the percentage of the firm's woman partners.[7]

References
  1. "Legal Market Overview". Legal 500. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
  2. "Plesner Advokatfirma I/S". Gyldendal - Den Store Danske. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  3. "Practice Areas". Plesner. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  4. "History". Plesner. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  5. "Ascertus Limited | Danish Law Firm, Plesner, Appoints Ascertus for Document Management System Upgrade and Ongoing Support". RealWire. 2020-03-02. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  6. De første skridt i drømmefabrikken – 08-02-2016, Berlingske
  7. "UN Global Compact Communication on Progress 2015". Plesner. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
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