University of Lund
Leffler's documented education and career place her in Sweden, where she trained in law and practised within the Swedish legal profession. Her studies at the University of Lund connected her with an institution in Scania (Skåne), a southern province that Sweden gained from Denmark under the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde.
Leffler received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Lund in 1982. The university was founded on 19 December 1666 under the regency of Karl XI and was named Regia Academia Carolina. It began with four faculties, theology, law, medicine, and philosophy, and its founding was tied to the integration of Scania into Swedish institutions and the education of its population in Swedish traditions.
The Faculty of Law is therefore one of the university's original faculties, and the university later became known as Lund University in the late nineteenth century. Its legal education thus has a long institutional history in the region, dating from the years after Scania became part of Sweden.
Leffler worked as a partner of Mannheimer & Zetterlöf, a Swedish law firm founded in 1943 in Gothenburg by Love Mannheimer and Tage Zetterlöf. The founders set out to build a modern practice that could develop its associates into partners.
The firm later merged with Carl Swartling Advokatbyrå in 1990, following working contacts that began in 1977, and the combined practice became Mannheimer Swartling, which had about 90 lawyers at its formation. Mannheimer Swartling continues the firm's legal practice in Sweden today.
Leffler is a member of the Swedish Bar Association (Sveriges advokatsamfund), the official professional body for Swedish lawyers. The association was formed in 1887 as a voluntary body of academically trained lawyers, with the aim of improving the administration of justice and raising the standing of the legal profession. It gained official recognition when the Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure took effect in 1948, and only its members may use the protected professional title advokat.
