Ulf Underland (1928 – 1 November 2012) was a Norwegian barrister. He took the

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degree in 1953, and was hired in the

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. He was stationed in

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and

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before being promoted to assistant secretary in 1967. In 1971 he became a barrister with access to work with Supreme Court cases, and became a partner in the law firm Arntzen, Underland & Co, today named

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. He is best known as the defender of

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in 1984–1985, together with

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and

Andreas Arntzen Andreas Arntzen (18 February 1777 – 14 December 1837) was a Norwegian politician. He was born in Grue, and graduated as cand.jur. in Copenhagen in 1802. He then worked as an attorney, chief of police of Christiania, Supreme Court judge an ...

. He resided in

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. He died in November 2012.

References

1928 births 2012 deaths People from Ski, Norway University of Oslo alumni Norwegian civil servants Norwegian expatriates in France Norwegian expatriates in Thailand Norwegian expatriates in Austria 20th-century Norwegian lawyers {{Norway-law-bio-stub