Staff

Ásgeir Þór Árnason

Supreme Court lawyer

Ásgeir Þór Árnason obtained a degree in law from the University of Iceland in 1983. He was granted a right of legal representation in the lower instance in 1986, and before the Supreme Court in 1994. He worked as an assistant to the District Commissioner of Austur-Skaftafellssýsla from 1883 to 1986, and since then has been a practising lawyer in Reykjavík. He was assistant to Supreme Court lawyer Kristján Stefánsson from 1984 to 1986, when he founded the law office Lögmál ehf with Supreme Court lawyer Óskar Magússon.

Area of expertise

Inheritance law 
Real property 
Company law 
Representation in litigation 
Competition law 
Law of contracts 
Tort law 
Accident indemnities 
Project contracts and bids 
Law of hunting and fishing

Ásgeir Þór Árnason

Supreme Court lawyer

Einar Oddur Sigurðsson

Lawyer

Einar Oddur obtained a B.A. degree in law from the University of Iceland in 2006, and a Master degree from the same university at the beginning of 2010. He was an exchange student at the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2008. He worked with the winding-up committee of Kaupthing Bank hf from 2009 to 2014, when he joined the law office Libra lögmenn ehf, and he has been active in legal practice from then on. From 2017 to 2023 he and lawyer Unnsteinn Örn Elvarsson had their practice at the law office E.S. Legal ehf, until they joined Lögmál ehf as partners in 2023.

Area of expertise

Criminal cases 
Law of contracts and obligations 
Law of enterprises 
Bankruptcy estates 
Estates at death 
Cases involving legal capacity

Einar Oddur Sigurðsson

Lawyer

Magnús Óskarsson LL.M., Esq.

Supreme Court lawyer

Magnús Óskarsson was granted a B.A. degree in law by the University of Iceland in 2006. He was an exchange student at the University of Copenhagen in 2006-2007 and obtained a Master degree in law from the University of Iceland in 2008. In 2010 he was awarded a LL.M. degree in company law from the New York University School of Law, and in 2021 was licensed to represent litigants in all New York judicial instances. He has worked with insurance companies and banks. In 2013 he joined Lögmál as a partner, becoming a Supreme Court lawyer in 2016.

Area of expertise

Company law 
Company boards 
Property law 
Law of hunting and fishing 
Real property boundaries 
Urban planning 
Environmental law 
Non-government organizations 
Financing 
Representation in litigation 
Law of contracts 
Information technology 
Insurance law

Magnús Óskarsson LL.M., Esq.

Supreme Court lawyer

Unnsteinn Örn Elvarsson LL.M.

Supreme Court lawyer

Unnsteinn Örn was granted a B.A. degree in law from the University of Reykjavík in 2006 and a Master degree in law in 2009. He continued his studies at Stockholm University in Sweden in 2012-2013, where he was awarded a L.L.M. degree in the law of information technology. He was licensed as a representative in litigation in the district courts in 2009, in the intermediate judicial instance (Landsréttur) in 2018, and before the Supreme Court in 2023. He has been an independent legal practitioner since 2013, and in company with Einar Oddur Sigurðsson from 2018 to 2023, in the name of E.S. Legal ehf. In 2023 Unnsteinn and Einar joined Lögmál ehf as partners.

Area of expertise

Criminal cases 
Law of information technology 
Accident indemnities 
Estates at death 
Bankruptcy estates 
Guardianship 
Representation in litigation 
Law of contracts

Unnsteinn Örn Elvarsson LL.M.

Supreme Court lawyer

Sunna Magnúsdóttir

Lawyer

Sunna Magnúsdóttir was born in Reykjavík 17 July 1986. She passed a matriculation examination at the Commercial College of Iceland in 2006, was awarded a Master degree in law at the University of Iceland in the spring of 2013, and was licensed as a representative in litigation before the district courts at the beginning of 2015. She commenced working with Lögmál ehf 17 September 2013.

Area of expertise

Asset management 
Cases involving real property 
Company law  
Debt collection 
Representation in litigation 
Information technology

Sunna Magnúsdóttir

Lawyer

Birna Ósk Bjarnadóttir

Lawyer

Birna Ósk was granted a B.A. degree in law at the University of Iceland in 2015, and a Master degree in law at the same university in 2017. She was licensed as a representative in litigation before the district courts in 2019. She has worked with collection cases at Motus and Lögheimtan ehf, and with criminal cases at Fulltingi slf.

Area of expertise

Estate settlements 
Agreements and contracts 
Accident indemnities 
Debt collection

Birna Ósk Bjarnadóttir

Lawyer