Tor Erling Staff

{{Short description|Norwegian criminal defense lawyer (1933–2018)}}

{{Use dmy dates |date=July 2023}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Tor Erling Staff

| image = Staff 01.jpg

| caption = Staff (left) with Øystein Meier Johannessen

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|02|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Oslo, Norway

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|07|22|1933|02|22|df=yes}}

| death_place = Oslo, Norway

| alma_mater = University of Oslo

| occupation = Lawyer

}}

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

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.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Tor Erling Staff |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Ingjald Ørbeck |last=Sørheim |authorlink=Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim|editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Tor_Erling_Staff/utdypning |language=Norwegian |accessdate=15 January 2013}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Tor Erling Staff |first= |last= |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://snl.no/Tor_Erling_Staff |language=Norwegian|accessdate=15 January 2013}}