Jacob Sand

Practice Areas

Jacob Sand is head of the firm's Labour & Employment practice group. Jacob specialises in a broad range of employment law issues. Having worked for more than 3½ years as a Legal Secretary at the European Court of Justice and having acted as an active advocate before the EU Court, Jacob has state-of-the-art knowledge and understanding of all aspects of EU employment law. Jacob Sand combines this knowledge with profound insight into collective labour law. This means that he is one of the most widely used litigators in Labour Court cases.

Jacob Sand has conducted numerous arbitration and court cases before the Supreme Court, Labour Court and other tribunals, including industrial tribunals. Jacob advises clients in a wide variety of different industries, for instance energy, transportation, financial services providers, telecommunications and media. In addition, he has acted as referee in the Danish Entrepreneurship award and as assessor to the former director of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) in the investigation committee (Tibetkommissionen) established by the Danish Minister of Justice.

Career

Partner, Gorrissen Federspiel since 2008

Gorrissen Federspiel 2005 -

Bech-Bruun Dragsted 2002 - 2005

Legal Secretary with the European Court of Justice, 1998 - 2002

Aros Advokater 1995 - 1998

Bech-Bruun & Trolle 1992 - 1995

Professional Memberships

The American Bar Association (ABA)

European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)

Danish Association of Experienced Supreme Court Litigators

The Danish Labour & Employment Association

Publications

"Hovedtørklæder - nyt fra EU-Domstolen" (Headscarfs - news from the Court of Justice of the European Union) in the Danish journal EU-ret & Menneskeret (DJØF Publishing), no. 2, 2017, p. 5 ff.

Co-author of Arbejdsretsnøglen (DJØF), 2014 -

Publications: The Danish monthly, Advokaten, no. 9 2015, Ligebehandling: Når bagateller kommer til behandling (Equal treatment: When trivial matters are being heard)

EELC Publication number 2015-3, 2015/28, p. 23 - 26, "Supreme Court follows up on ECJ's judgment in Ring and Werge"

American Bar Association International Labor & Employment Law Committee Newsletter, January 2015: Obesity May Constitute a Disability According to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)

International Labor and Employment Laws, chapter about Danmark, Bloomberg BNA, 2022

Co-author of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Corporate Immigration, Denmark chapter, 2014

Arbejdsgivers Kontrolbeføjelser - nye muligheder og nye udfordringer (The Employer's Supervision Powers - new possibilities and new challenges), HR Jura Magazine, no. 4 p. 42 ff, 2013

Co-author of Sourcing World, European Lawyer Reference, 2012

"Strukturreformen - nye væsentlige domme om ændringer i ansættelsesforhold" (The Municipal Reform - new essential judgments in cases concerning changes in the employment) in the monthly magazine Stads- & Havneingeniøren, January 1, 2006, p. 22 ff

"Forbud mod diskrimination af direktører" (Prohibition against discrimination of CEOs) in the monthly Advokaten, March 2006

"Den danske model i et integreret Europa - Festskrift i anledning af Einar Edelbergs 40 års jubilæum" (The Danish model in an integral Europe - a Festschrift on the occasion of Einer Edelberg's 40th anniversary), DJØF, 2004

Various articles on employment law in the daily Jyllands-Posten, 2003-2004

Co-author of "Den kommenterede virksomhedsoverdragelseslov" (The commented act on the transfer of undertakings), DJØF, 2002

Author of Chapter 17 "Transportation" in EU-Karnov, 2002, 2003 and 2005

Languages Spoken

Danish, English