Employment Law and Pensions, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Investigation, Compliance and Anti-Corruption, Corporate Criminal Law, Contract Law

Partner Jan Fougner is a specialist on litigation and employment law and has extensive experience from a number of high-profile cases involving legal, political and reputational risk. He has litigated approximately 20 cases before the Supreme Court. In addition, Jan Fougner works with contract law, petroleum law, administrative law, environmental law and the law of damages. He is Professor II of Employment Law at BI Norwegian Business School and the author of several textbooks. He gives lectures on a regular basis and has vast experience from public and private boards, councils and committees. He has also been the head of several major investigations. Jan Fougner has extensive experience with management and change processes in which the framework conditions of collective employment law and the restoration of the employer's managerial prerogative are of vital importance. He is also leading in Norway on compliance, anti-corruption, corporate penalty, conflict and crisis management, and subsequent clear-up processes under both Norwegian and international legislation, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Professor II, BI Norwegian Business Schoool, 2015- Partner at Wiersholm since 1994 Joined Wiersholm in 1993 Lawyer, the Attorney General (Civil Affairs), 1988-1993 Editor, "Arbeidsrett", Universitetsforlaget, 2004–2013 Main Editor, "EasyFind Arbeidsrett", 1999- Censor, the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, 1988-1994 Scientific Assistant, the Department of Public Law, University of Oslo, 1986-1987

Ph.D, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, 2007 Admitted to the Supreme Court, 1993 Cand. jur., University of Oslo, 1988