She was a defence lawyer for Anders Behring Breivik in his trial for his role in the 2011 Norway attacks.
[1] From 1992 to 1999 Bæra, who hails from the city Porsgrunn[2] in Telemark, was a lawyer for Lippestad AS law firm.
She had initially received a 3-month leave, then 6-months, however the national director of the Labour Inspection Authority decided that extending that further was indefensible, ostensibly because Bæra hadn't given a clear indication that she would in fact return to her former job once the leave of absence was at an end.
In an October 2011 news article about the dispute, two middle management leaders who had worked under her praised her leadership qualities.
Following the trial against Breivik, Beira told the media that she had received death threats during that assignment.