Mr Chris van Dijk > Kennedy Van der Laan > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile

Mr Chris van Dijk

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Work Department

Insurance and Liability Group

Position

Partner

Career

Chris is one of the founding fathers of our firm. He is a partner at the Insurance & Liability practice group. He represents clients in insurance, damage and liability cases. Chris specialises in large material damages, personal injury, medical, employers’, professional and product liability. In addition, Chris works as a mediator.

His broad range of extracurricular activities offers Chris a basis to fathom each case from a broad perspective. Besides being a practising lawyer, Chris is a deputy judge in the Court of The Hague and in the Court of Appeal of Arnhem. Chris is a lecturer with the Grotius Academy and the Stichting Studiecentrum Rechterlijke macht (SSR) (Training and Study Centre for the Judiciary). He is also active as an author and editor for several professional publications. He publishes, for example, in the journals Nederlands Juristenblad, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht,, Aansprakelijkheid Verzekering & Schade, Tijdschrift voor Vergoeding Personenschade and Jurisprudentie Aansprakelijkheidsrecht.

Languages

Dutch, English

Memberships

Member of Netherlands Lawyers’ Association
Member of Civil Law Association
Member of Netherlands Association for the Judiciary
Member of Society for Insurance Studies
Member of European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law Vienna
Member of Pan European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers (PEOPIL)

Education

Mediation, Van der Hoeven Nelissen
Grotius Academie Informaticarecht, 1996
Grotius Academie Personenschade, 1994
Rechterlijk Ambtenaar in Opleiding (RIAO), 1992
Rechten, Vrije Universiteit, 1984