Interview with: Tommy Angermair, Partner

Tommy Angermair, partner, explains how the firm is adapting to clients’ changing needs.

 

What do you see as the main points that differentiate Labora Legal from your competitors?

 Labora Legal is among the elite employment law practices in Denmark.

We are one of only two substantial boutique firms fully dedicated to employment law.

The partners all have 20+ years of employment law specialist experience from leading full-service law firms where they acted as heads of the respective firm’s employment law practices.

Labora Legal stands out by being a highly specialized and fully flexible boutique law firm which enables the partners to service their clients personally and leverage their profound legal expertise and understanding of the client’s specific business to provide top-notch advice in a cost-efficient manner. Our partner rates tend to be lower than the partner rates in other leading employment law practices.

This combination creates a unique level of service and basis for high client satisfaction.

As testament to the success of our business model, our client base mostly consists of sophisticated long-standing corporate clients, including among others several global and regional heavyweights, who recognize and appreciate the value of our exceptionally client-friendly setup.

 

Which practices do you see growing in the next 12 months? What are the drivers behind that?

Based on our experience from recent years, we expect our employment law practice to grow steadily but growth as such is not a key priority for us.

We think our practice has a unique and optimal size for the Danish market given our strategic focus.

We also recognize, however, that if we keep building new client relationships and nurturing the existing ones, growth is inevitable.

 

What’s the main change you’ve made in the firm that will benefit clients?
Having increased our team from 3 to 4 very experienced and recognized employment law specialist effectives from 1 April 2025 and thereby onboarding several amazing new clients.

 

Is technology changing the way you interact with your clients, and the services you can provide them?

We use technology to leverage efficiency and client value, but we still provide our legal advice via direct personal communication with our clients, which is necessary to provide holistic and value-adding advice on specific matters.

 

Can you give us a practical example of how you have helped a client to add value to their business?

A recent example of value adding advice to a client involves a corporate client facing numerous restructuring processes within the company which created a high level of frustration and uncertainty among its employees.

The client did not comply with the statutory rules on work councils in Denmark and had been opposed to this for many years due to the risk of time-consuming discussions with employee representatives.

However, in a controlled process we advised the management to meet with employee representatives exchanging views on the upcoming restructuring processes, thereby establishing trust between the management and employee representatives. On this basis, a more formal work council was established in close cooperation with management thereby succeeding in (i) meeting legal requirements to have a work council but more importantly (ii) creating a value-adding trusted forum between management and employee representatives enabling management to present necessary restructuring processes within in the company while at the same receiving and understanding employee concerns and proposals for easing the process for the benefit of all relevant stakeholders.

 

Are clients looking for stability and strategic direction from their law firms – where do you see the firm in three years’ time?

We certainly think so.

For us it is first and foremost a priority to keep doing what we do best, which is building and nurturing long-term mutually beneficial client relationships by at all times providing highly specialized, value-adding and cost-efficient legal advice at a partner level.

This will be the main foundation for maintaining our position among the elite employment law practices in Denmark.