Ms Härmand was appointed to the Estonian judiciary in 1999 and worked at the court of first instance as a civil judge, specialising on intellectual property rights and obligation law. Since February 2024 she is the head of the civil department of the Harju County Court. As a judge she has been a member of the drafting committee of Estonian Copyright Act and Civil Procedure Act. She has been a lecturer on civil procedural law, intellectual property law, data protection law and legal drafting at Tartu University and Public Service Academy of Estonia for more than two decades. She is judicial trainer and frequent lecturer of civil procedure and judicial skills for practitioners from various fields – patent attorneys, lawyers, court experts and judiciary. She supervises students participating in EU Moot Court competitions. She is also a member of the Judicial Training Committee of Estonia. She was seconded to the Estonian Ministry of Justice to work as the deputy secretary general and head of the legal policy department 2012-2020. In the MoJ she conducted the work of Estonian Data Protection Authority and Estonian Patent Office, coordinated drafting of private and public law including intellectual property, competition law, data protection, fundamental rights etc. She was the program manager of the MoJ during Estonian Presidency of the EU in 2017. She returned to the judiciary in 2020 and since 1. of June 2023 she is also a judge in the Unified Patent Court, Nordic-Baltic Division.