Practice areas

Damage and insurance
Environmental law
Litigation, arbitration and mediation
Public Law

Henriette Soja (b. 1963) has been specialising in environmental law for many years and is among the leading attorneys in Denmark within this area of the law. Henriette Soja has thus advised in many leading cases within the areas of environmental, planning and construction law and has conducted negotiations and a large number of cases of general public importance within all the areas which are traditionally handled by the municipal technical administration and the municipal supply sector.

Henriette Soja has many years' experience in environmental due diligence projects, compliance programmes and risk management in private enterprises. She has represented municipalities and private enterprises in some of the largest environmental and construction cases in recent years and has carried out legal investigations within the areas of environmental, planning and construction law.

Henriette Soja teaches on the assistant attorney programme and the special environmental law programme under Local Government Denmark (LGDK). Since 1998, she has been a part-time lecturer at the Copenhagen Business School in the subject damages and insurance and has earlier lectured on public law at the University of Copenhagen. Henriette Soja performs comprehensive course and lecturing activities, including special courses for authorities and private enterprises concerning environmental, municipal and administrative law.

Read about Henriette Soja on the Legal 500 and PLC Which Lawyer websites.

Admission and right of audience 

Right of audience before the Supreme Court, 2001
Right of audience before the High Court, 1996
Admitted to the bar in 1993 

Positions of trust 

Chairman of the Danish Environmental Law Society
Member of the board of the Danish Society for Building and Landscape Culture 

Memberships 

Association of Danish Environmental Lawyers 

Education 

Master of Laws, the University of Copenhagen, 1988 

Languages 

Scandinavian languages, English and German