Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir
Attorney, LL.M. - Partner
Lára Herborg, a licensed attorney before the district courts, joined LEX in February 2019. Lára specializes in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with an LL.M degree in Law & Technology.
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Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir
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Lára Herborg, a licensed attorney before the district courts, joined LEX in February 2019. Lára specializes in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with an LL.M degree in Law & Technology. Her experience includes assisting clients on strategic licensing, telecoms and technology transactions matters. Lara advises clients on a broad range of IP and Technology matters, including copyrights, fintech, open source software and data protection compliance. Lára has held many lectures and written articles on the intersection between law and technology.
Lára also has experience in other fields of law, including corporate and commercial law, construction law and tendering processes and has extensive experience in advising clients, both in the public and the private sector in these fields.
Admitted to practice before:
- The District Courts
Career
- LEX since 2019
- DLA Piper, Luxembourg, 2018-2019
- Juris, 2011-2018
- Arion Bank, 2011
- Landsbanki Islands hf. (Winding-up Board), 2009-2011
Education
- LL.M. (Law & Technology), UC Berkeley, 2018
- District Court Attorney 2015
- University of Reykjavík, Master of Law, 2013
- University of Reykjavík, B.A. Law, 2011
Languages
- English
- Danish
- German
Teaching
- Lecturer in Fintech and Law at Reykjavík University from 2021
- Lecturer in Technology- and Computer Law at Reykjavik University from 2019
- Part time lecturer in Methodology at the University of Reykjavík, 2011-2017
- Guest lecturer in Contract Law and Construction Law in the MPM program at Reykjavík University, 2013
- Supervised a Master´s thesis on blockchain technology and the law, 2018
Publications
- Contributor to an international report: Technology Governance in a time of crisis, COVID-19 related decision support, published by the Human Technology Foundation. Accessible here: https://www.lex.is/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Technology-Governance-in-a-Time-of-Crisis-COVID-19-Related-Decision-Support.pdf
- Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir and Sindri M. Stephensen (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Tímarit lögfræðinga, 157-181
- Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir and Olivier Reisch (2018). GDPR in the world of smart devices, ACE (Wolters Kluwer)
Other activities
- On the Board of Directors of LEX from 2021
- On the legislative committee of the Icelandic Bar Association from 2020
- Academic Editor of Fons Juris publisher from 2019
- On the Board of Directors of AFS Iceland, 2015-2017
- Associate Editor of Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2017-2018
- Board member of Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA), 2017-2018