Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
After the war, Sunde worked as a lawyer for the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), where he headed their legal department. He represented workers and opposed employers in many groundbreaking court cases. The author Jostein Nyhamar writes, "No other labour movement issue caused so much prolonged and heated debate in the press as the issue of collective insurance," an issue with which Sunde was heavily involved.
Sunde was admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court of Norway. There, he was in contact with Johan Bernhard Hjort, a one-time founder (with Vidkun Quisling) of Nasjonal Samling, which fronted the puppet government under the Nazi occupation. Hjort had left Nasjonal Samling, but the tension between Sunde and Hjort was noticeable.
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