Tor Erling Staff

Tor Erling Staff (22 February 1933 – 22 July 2018) was a Norwegian criminal defense lawyer. He was particularly known for taking controversial cases.

Tor Erling Staff
Staff (left) with Øystein Meier Johannessen
Born	(1933-02-22)22 February 1933 Oslo, Norway
Died	22 July 2018(2018-07-22) (aged 85) Oslo, Norway
Alma mater	University of Oslo
Occupation	Lawyer

Staff was born in Oslo. As a student he chaired the Norwegian Students' Society in Oslo in the spring of 1956, graduating with the cand.jur. degree in 1958. He started working for barrister Olaf Trampe Kindt and for stipendiary magistrate Christian Bernt Apenes. He continued his studies in the United States. From 1967 he worked as a lawyer in Oslo and at the Supreme Court.^[1][2]