Sune Fugleholm has solid litigation experience and has conducted more than 75 cases before the Danish Supreme Court alone, many of them critical cases with extensive consequences. He benefits from this experience when creating good and flexible processes in major groups of cases, or when it is to be ensured that a legal issue of general public importance gets the right treatment before the courts. Sune focuses on climate law because climate challenges are and will become the biggest challenge to society for the next 10-20 years, both generally and in law. And legal innovation is what drives Sune in the work involving climate law.
Sune Fugleholm
Partner, Attorney
For more than 35 years, Sune Fugleholm has assisted public bodies with removing legal barriers and finding solutions within the existing legal framework or creating a new secure framework when projects are to be executed or critical decisions are to be made.
For more than 35 years, Sune Fugleholm has assisted public bodies with removing legal barriers and finding solutions within the existing legal framework or creating a new secure framework when projects are to be executed or critical decisions are to be made.
CV
Education
Certificate, The Arbitrator Education by Danske Advokater (Association of Danish Law Firms)
Education
PRINCE2® certified
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Career
Member of the board of directors of the Danish Supreme Court Bar Association (Højesteretsskranken)
Career
Expert member of the Danish Electricity Regulatory Committee (Elreguleringsudvalget)
Career
Christrup-Prisen 2006
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Career
Chairman of our executive committee
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Career
Head of our constitutional and public law team
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Career
Poul Schmith
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Career
Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York
Education
LL.M., University of Michigan
Education
Master of Law, University of Copenhagen
International rankings
LEGAL 500 DISPUTE RESOLUTION 2024
LEADING INDIVIDUAL
"Sune Fugleholm is the senior partner of the litigation team and an extremely experienced lawyer with a keen eye as to what can make or break a case. He is also very innovative and always on the lookout for new ways of developing legal arguments, including by including big data analysis of case law."
PUBLICATIONS
2012
The Danish Public Administration Act 25 years: E-government (co-author Anders Lotterup)
2014
The power of the court, The court of the power: Administrative committees between courts of law and administration (co-author Karsten Hagel-Sørensen)
2017
The liability in damages of public bodies: Chapter 3. liability in damages for mistakes of law, particularly about the standard of liability (co-author Rasmus Grønved Nielsen)
2017
Don't make your authority liable in damages (co-author Rasmus Grønved Nielsen)
2019
Procedure: section 19 – Procedure and section 28 – Administrative matters
2019
The Danish Administration of Justice Act 100 years: Litigation by the Danish state (co-author Steffen Sværke)