Advokatfirmaet Bull AS

Employment law and pensions; Litigation and arbitration

Kjersti Borgen has specialised in employment law since 2008 and has broad experience within employment law, assisting Norwegian and international clients within various industries in the private and public sectors. Kjersti has also acted as a lawyer for employees and trade unions.

She regularly provides advice in complex matters regarding, inter alia, reorganizations, redundancies, transfer of undertakings, dismissals and cases dealing with discrimination and harassment. Her work includes extensive experience with dispute resolution through negotiations and litigation before the courts. She possesses expertise in collective employment law as well.

She regularly lectures and holds seminars for clients and employer/employee organizations.

Kjersti worked for several years as an in-house lawyer in the Gjensidige Group and in Tekna, the largest Norwegian union of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals. Kjersti is also a deputy judge in the Labour Court of Norway.

2023
Partner, Bull

2023
Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein

2018–2022
Senior attorney, Wikborg Rein

2017-
Deputy Judge, Arbeidsretten

2017
Attorney, Advokatfirmaet Lippestad AS

2015–2017
Attorney, Tekna - The Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals

2011–2014
Attorney Corporate Legal, Gjensidige Forsikring ASA

2008–2011
Associate, Wikborg Rein

2017
INSEAD Executive Board Programme

2008
Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Bergen

2007
Certificate in international finance law, Queen Mary, University of London