Leif Silbersky
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Leif Silbersky is a well-known Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 lawyer
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

 and author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

, living in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

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He is notable for taking many high-profile cases which have enjoyed large media attention, making him one of the most noted lawyers in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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Clients that have been represented by Silbersky as reported in media

  • Sigvard Marjasin, Former county governor of Örebro
    Örebro
    -Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....

     (1996)
  • Thomas Jisander, Member of the board of directors in Trustor (2001)
  • Daniel Wallén, "Järnrörs-Daniel" in the reality TV show Baren (2001)
  • Marie Fredriksson
    Marie Fredriksson
    is a Swedish pop singer-songwriter and pianist, best known for forming one half of the pop duo Roxette, which she created together with Per Gessle in 1986...

    , Singer and songwriter. Member of pop group Roxette
    Roxette
    Roxette are a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle . Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act from the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough album Look Sharp!...

    . She sued a newspaper for libel (2003)
  • Calle Jonsson
    Calle Jonsson
    Calle Jonsson is a Swedish citizen born in Långträsk, Piteå who was arrested in July 2001 on the Greek island of Kos, accused of attempted murder. His case was one of Sweden's most known and reported criminal cases...

    , a young Swede accused of having stabbed a man in Greece (2005)
  • Anna Sjödin
    Anna Sjödin
    Anna Margareta Sjödin is a Swedish Social Democratic politician, and elected president of the Social Democratic Youth League from August 3, 2005 to December 16, 2006. She was also elected vice president of the International Union of Socialist Youth at the congress in January 2006...

    , Former president of Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (2006)
  • Niklas Lindgren, Hagamannen
    Hagamannen
    Kurt Niklas Lindgren , known in the media prior to his arrest as Hagamannen , is a convicted Swedish serial rapist. Lindgren was convicted of nine counts of sexual assault in 2006, two of which were labeled attempted murder, in relation to attacks in the city of Umeå from 1998 to 2005...

     (2006)
  • Janne Karlsson, Coach for Linköping
    Linköping
    Linköping is a city in southern middle Sweden, with 104 232 inhabitants in 2010. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality with 146 736 inhabitants and the capital of Östergötland County...

     ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     (2007)
  • Anders Eklund
    Anders Eklund (murderer)
    Per Anders Eklund is a Swedish murderer and rapist convicted of killing a 31-year-old woman in 2000 and a 10-year-old girl in 2008. Eklund is also a suspect in other murder cases currently under investigation, including the unsolved 1994 murder of Malin Olsson in Gothenburg...

    , found guilty of two murders, one of them a 10 year old girl (2008)
  • A murder on a 78 year old woman, in connection with an argument about a parking spot (2010).
  • Julian Assange
    Julian Assange
    Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, writer, computer programmer and Internet activist. He is the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks with the stated purpose of creating open governments.WikiLeaks has published material...

    , editor in chief of Wikileaks
    Wikileaks
    WikiLeaks is an international self-described not-for-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers. Its website, launched in 2006 under The Sunshine Press organisation, claimed a database of more...

    , accused of rape and molestation (2010)

Works

Aside from being a lawyer he has also co-written many crime books with his friend Olov Svedelid including.
  • Mord bäste broder (1974)
  • Anbud från döden (1975)
  • Döden skriver brev (1976)
  • Sista vittnet (1977), also in English: The last witness.
  • Straffspark (1978)
  • Bländverk (1979)
  • Målbrott (1980)
  • Dödens barn (1981)
  • Dina dagar är räknade (1982)
  • Ont blod (1983)
  • Villfarelsen (1984)
  • Villebrådet (1985)
  • Bilden av ett mord (1986)
  • Narrspel (1988)
  • Sprängstoff (1989)
  • En röst för döden (1990)
  • Döden tar inga mutor (1992)
  • Och tiden den stod stilla (1992)
  • Svart är dödens färg (1993)
  • Skrivet i blod (1994)
  • Den stora tystnaden (1995)
  • Gå i döden (1996)
  • Mördaren har inga vänner (1998)
  • Den sista lögnen (2000)
  • Upplösningen (2002)
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