Plesner (law firm)
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| Company type | Partnership |
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| Industry | Law |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Tom Kári Kristjánsson (Managing Partner) Peter Wengler-Jørgensen (Chairman) |
Number of employees | approx. 360 (2016) |
| Website | www.plesner.com |
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]
It deals with many areas of commercial law.[3] And most of its work is international in nature. The company has 42 partners, and a total staff of about 360.
History
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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
Today, the company practices in many
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[5]
- a programme for developing and retaining talented female lawyers with the goal of increasing the percentage of the firm's woman partners.[6]
References
- ^ "Legal Market Overview". Legal 500. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
- ^ "Plesner Advokatfirma I/S". Gyldendal - Den Store Danske. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
- ^ "Practice Areas". Plesner. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
- ^ "History". Plesner. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ De første skridt i drømmefabrikken – 08-02-2016, Berlingske
- ^ "UN Global Compact Communication on Progress 2015". Plesner. Retrieved 2016-02-05.