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The history of the firm of Lind Cadovius dates back to 1937 when the then 28-year-old recently admitted attorney of the High Court, Niels Peter Madsen-Mygdal (son of the staunchly liberal former Prime Minister Thomas Madsen-Mygdal), set up his practice in Copenhagen.
Madsen-Mygdal, who was an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen in the period 1938-44, gained his law doctorate with a thesis entitled "Public Order and Territoriality" and was granted right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court in 1948. Madsen-Mygdal was a talented, if temperamental, advocate, who conducted several spectacular cases, such as the "Goods Exchange Case" and the "Damico Case" (as described in C. Richard's memoirs of an attorney, "En Advokats erindringer", Gyldendal, 1981, pp. 65–86).
1954-59
In 1954, Madsen-Mygdal met his diametrical opposite, 40–year-old Oluf Hansen Lind, who had trained with Carl Heise, a Supreme Court advocate, and who became a High Court advocate in 1944. Oluf Lind was an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1945, where he held tenure until 1981. He will still be remembered by many lawyers as the lecturer in connection with the major assignment for the law degree examination of the time. Oluf Lind's special interests were personal, family and inheritance law. In addition, he served as assistant to the Public Prosecutor in Copenhagen for a number of years and was vice-chairman of the former Danish Bar Association from its inception in 1949 until 1979. Mr. Lind was a respected advocate, conducting a number of landmark suits before the Supreme Court concerning family and probate issues (U1955.937H Hundertmark, U1962.870H, U1976.345H – for details of the 1962 case, see Jørgen Trolle: "Ret og Vrang", Gads Forlag, 1977, page 187).
Madsen-Mygdal and Oluf Lind teamed up in 1954 and operated a joint law firm until Madsen-Mygdal's death in 1956, when Oluf Lind took over Madsen-Mygdal’s practice.
1956-1989
Over time, Oluf Lind took on as partners a number of attorneys who had trained in his practice. Kristian Madsen (1926-82) was appointed in 1957 and was an outstanding business lawyer. Poul Holm-Jørgensen (1932-) joined the practice in 1959 and soon developed family law and the administration of estates of deceased persons as his specialties. For a number of years, he was one of Denmark’s most frequently retained divorce attorneys. Several of the present partners at Lind Cadovius started out as assistant attorneys with Oluf Lind and subsequently became partners with Oluf Lind & Partnere.
With a business based on family law and what was then a more extensively family-based business community, Oluf Lind and his colleagues, operating under the name of Oluf Lind & Partners, created a highly respected and comprehensive law firm.
1989-
Immediately prior to Oluf Lind's death in 1989, Oluf Lind & Partnere signed a merger agreement with Poulsen, Westergaard, Cadovius & Stokholm, who had established their partnership in 1985. The merger came into effect on 1 January 1990, when the law firm was consolidated at the present (although at the time somewhat smaller) Østergade premises. In 1991, when it became possible to operate a law firm as a company, the firm was converted into a limited company. At that time, Lind & Cadovius Advokataktieselskab had 31 employees, of whom 14 were lawyers. Over the years that followed, the number of partners increased, also through influx from other law firms. In April 2005, the name was changed to Lind Cadovius Advokataktieselskab. Lind Cadovius currently has more than 90 employees, including approx. 45 lawyers, and is one of the 10 largest law firms in Denmark.
Lind Cadovius is managed by a board and a managing partner appointed from among the firm's partners.
Over the years, Lind Cadovius has been engaged in professional peer activities. Several of the partners have been and are members of the local chapter of the Copenhagen Association of Attorneys, and the Disciplinary Board and the General Council of the Danish Bar and Law Society. Jon Stokholm served as President of the General Council of the Bar and Law Society from 2001 to 2004, when he resigned to become a Supreme Court judge.
Lind Cadovius is responsible for the Secretariat function of the Danish Section of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). The objective of the ICJ is to disseminate and strengthen the knowledge of the human rights.
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