Lawyers in the Capital Region
Icelandic name: Höfuðborgarsvæðið
The directory lists 920 lawyers in the Capital Region, at 393 law firms, spread across 6 towns. Choose a town or browse the full list below.
Lawyers by town: Reykjavík (775), Kópavogur (86), Hafnarfjörður (26), Garðabær (22), Mosfellsbær (6), Seltjarnarnes (5). By rights of audience, the region has 249 Supreme Court attorneys, 106 attorneys with rights before the Court of Appeal and 565 district court attorneys. 239 state that they work in English.
All lawyers in the Capital Region
Capital Region at a glance
- Lawyers listed
- 920
- Law firms
- 393
- Towns with lawyers
- 6
- Work in English
- 239
- Most listed practice areas
- Real Estate & Property Law (124), Corporate & Company Law (119), Contract Law & Debt Collection (118), Family & Inheritance Law (106), Personal Injury & Compensation Law (98)
- Largest firms
- LEX lögmannsstofa (37), LOGOS lögmannsþjónusta (37), Lögfræðistofa Reykjavíkur (18), Landslög slf. (16), Juris (13)
Courts and public offices in the Capital Region
First-instance court cases in the Capital Region are heard by the Reykjavík District Court (Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur, in Reykjavík) and the Reykjanes District Court (Héraðsdómur Reykjaness, in Hafnarfjörður). Cases from Kópavogur, Garðabær and Hafnarfjörður go to the Reykjanes court; cases from Reykjavík, Seltjarnarnes and Mosfellsbær go to the Reykjavík court. Appeals are heard by the Court of Appeal (Landsréttur) in Reykjavík.
The District Commissioner of the Capital Region (Sýslumaðurinn á höfuðborgarsvæðinu) handles divorce and separation, estates, registration of property deeds, enforcement and other official matters for the region.
You can also search lawyers by practice area, or see all English-speaking lawyers in Iceland.
Source: public register of the Icelandic Bar Association (Lögmannafélag Íslands), enriched with publicly available contact details. How we compile the directory.