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Provided by Tore Lerheim
International Employment Law and -Pension.
Tore Lerheim is the Chair, Partner, and a lawyer at Littler Norway. He specialises in employment law, pension law, and litigation, with additional expertise in contract law and private international law.
Lerheim has extensive experience representing clients before the ordinary courts and is admitted to the Supreme Court. He has functioned as counsel for a wide range of companies and has advised employees at all levels in both the private and public sectors. He has significant expertise in assisting senior executives and top management.
A highly regarded litigator, Lerheim represents employers, employees, and trade unions with exceptional skill, integrity, and a personal approach. He is also a certified and recognised mediator.
With more than 25 years of experience, Lerheim has been recommended in The Legal 500 EMEA editorial since 2019 and ranked in Chambers Europe in 2007 and from 2018 to 2024. He has also received significant recognition in the Norwegian Lawyer Survey since 2018, consistently ranked among the country’s top employment lawyers. In 2024, he was ranked third on this list.
Lerheim is a member of The Norwegian Bar Association and The Norwegian Society of Labour Law.
• Summary of Norwegian Employment law in American Bar Association’s treatise "International Labour and Employment Laws", 2007
• "Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties 2005" (Norway), (together with Arne Didrik Kjørnes), Global Counsel Handbooks, 2005
• ” The football trainer's contract – a guidance when entering into contracts and interpretation of Norwegian football’s standard contract for football trainers” (in Norwegian only) (together with Marius M. Gisvold), 2004
• “Consumer contract concluded abroad - private international legal issues" (student thesis) (in Norwegian only), 1998, IUSEF no. 49
• Partner | lawyer | chair of the board at Littler advokatfirma AS, 2023 – present
• Certified mediator, 2018 - present
• Partner | lawyer at Homble Olsby law firm, 2014 – 2023
• Admitted to the Norwegian Supreme Court, 2009
• Lawyer at Tekna (The Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific
• Professionals), 2007-2014
• Lawyer/associate at Wikborg Rein, 1999-2007
• Serving Lawyer, Judge Attorney General, 1998-1999
• Research assistant, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, 1995-1996
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Tore Lerheim has a good ability to listen and is concise and clear in his advice.
Tore is very strong in general.
Tore Lerheim has a good ability to listen and is concise and clear in his advice.
Tore is very strong in general.
