{"id":197,"date":"2019-01-23T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenskalogfraedistofan.test\/lawyers\/haukur-orn-birgisson\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:52:10","slug":"haukur-orn-birgisson","status":"publish","type":"lawyers","link":"https:\/\/firma.is\/?lawyers=haukur-orn-birgisson","title":{"rendered":"Haukur \u00d6rn Birgisson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in February 2011.&nbsp; <br>Admitted to practice before the District Court in May 2005. <br>Cand. jur. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Iceland in June, 2004. <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Partner at FIRMA Legal from 2023. <br>Partner at Iceland Legal 2008-2023. <br>Associate at LEX Law Office 2005-2008.<br>Associate at Nestor L\u00f6gmenn Law Firm 2004-2005. <br><br>Board of Directors of Islandsbanki from 2023.<br>Chairman of the Reparations Settlement Committee from 2022.<br>Chairman of the Icelandic Court Cases Review Commission from 2017-2021. <br>Chairman of Inkasso ehf. 2010-2013. <br>Board member of GAM Management hf. (GAMMA)  2009-2012.<br>Ad hoc member of the Icelandic Bar Association&#8217;s Disciplinary Committee. <br> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching and Research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructor in law studies at the Commercial College of Iceland 2004-2006.&nbsp;<br>Instructor in law studies at College Fast Track, 2007.&nbsp;<br>Lecturer in general commercial law at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Iceland 2006-2009.<br>Teacher at the Icelandic Bar Examination Course from 2008.<br>Assessor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Iceland from 2012.<br>Assessor at the Faculty of Law at the Reykjavik University from 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Activities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Open Championship, member of Championship Committe from 2024.<br>President of the Golf Union of Iceland from 2013-2021.<br>President of the European Golf Association from 2019-2021.<br>International Golf Federation&#8217;s Administrative Committee from 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Practice<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Tort, labour law, real estate law, property law, probate law, criminal law, insurance law, bankruptcy and insolvency law.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haukur is a founding partner of FIRMA Legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":737,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firma.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/lawyers\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firma.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/lawyers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firma.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/lawyers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firma.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firma.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}