Applications to become an assistant attorney-at-law or attorney-at-law in Denmark shall be filed with The Department of Civil Affairs, Toldboden 2, 2. sal, 8800 Viborg.
If you wish to establish yourself as a lawyer in Denmark under your home-country professional title, cf. Directive 1998/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 to facilitate practice of the profession of lawyer on a permanent bases in a Member State other than that which the qualification was obtained, please visit the Danish Bar and Law Society.
Information regarding depositing your practicing certificate (deponering af advokatbeskikkelse)
You can deposit your practicing certificate by sending a request regarding this matter to The Department of Civil Affairs.
You can send your request by an ordinary e-mail, via digital post or in a letter sent in the mail. If your request is sent by letter, it must bear your personal signature.
We kindly ask that you send your original practicing certificate to The Department of Civil Affairs.
We also ask that you let us know from which date you will no longer be acting as an ‘advokat’ in Denmark.
Your deposition request will by the earliest become effective from the day, it is received by The Department of Civil Affairs. It can not be done retroactively.
You can however send your request ahead of the date you wish it to be applicable from.
You can expect a decision around three weeks after your request has been received by The Department of Civil Affairs.
When and if you require your practicing certificate reinstated because you will once again be practicing as an ‘advokat’ in Denmark, you can request it by contacting The Department of Civil Affairs.
To handle this type of request The Department of Civil Affairs will need your consent to contact and request information from select public authorities. You can find the consent forms (in Danish) here: Genudlevering af advokatbeskikkelse.
British attorneys-at-law and persons with British legal qualifications
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU will most likely result in some consequences for British attorneys-at-law and persons with British legal qualifications and their possibilities to become an attorney-at-law in Denmark.
The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU is regulated in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part. The agreement can be found here.
The Department of Civil Affairs is in contact with the Ministry of Justice regarding the interpretation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement’s impact on the possibilities for British attorneys-at-law and persons with British legal qualifications to become an attorney-at-law in Denmark. Therefore, the Department of Civil Affairs is unable to inform of the consequences of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU at the moment.