Riisa & Co Advokatfirmaet ANS

Litigation and insurance law.

Partner/Lawyer – admitted to the Supreme Court.

Over more than fifteen years Joachim Mikkelborg Skjelsbæk has established an extensive and broad experience within tort law and insurance law.

Skjelsbæk works mainly with liability cases, both in connection with liability insurance and general private and commercial liability. He also has experience with specialist areas of liability such as professional liability and product liability. Skjelsbæk also has very extensive experience with cases connected with real estate law, where he has pleaded a large number of cases before the courts with a range of questions connected to change of ownership insurance.

Additionally, Skjelsbæk assists clients with conciliation and dispute resolution across a broad spectrum of other specialities, and has extensive litigation experience from the District Courts, the Courts of Appeal, as well at the Supreme Court. He received his right to appear for the Supreme Court in 2020, and has litigated a total of six cases before the Supreme Court. The last four all successful on behalf of his clients. At the time of writing the result of the last case is pending. He will have another case before the Supreme Court in November 2023.

Throughout his career Skjelsbæk has worked with personal injury damages and personal insurance, and has long experience with motor liability, loss of licence insurance and others personal injury products.

As contact person for Advokatfirmaet RIISAs international insurance law network Global Insurance Law Connect, Skjelsbæk assists both Norwegian clients with compensation cases overseas and foreign clients with cases in Norway.

2020-

Admitted to the Supreme Court

2017-

Partner, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

2014-2017

Lawyer, Advokatfirmaet RIISA

2006-2014

Lawyer, BACH

Norwegian. English.

2006     University of Oslo, Cand.jur.

1998     Naval Officer’s School, Administrative path/line