Marieke Opdam

Personal injury / Sickness / Reintegration / Employer’s liability / Individual and collective dismissals.

Marieke specializes in employment law and civil servants law. In 2014, Marieke obtained a doctorate with her dissertation ‘Reintegration in the Event of Personal Injury’, about the reintegration of personal injury victims. She regularly advises on illness, damage and reintegration. This has led to her secondment at the insurance company Chubb in 2019 and 2020. Marieke also often publishes and speaks on these topics and current events within employment law and insurance law, for the General Counsel Network among other things.

Besides her involvement in cases, as a professional support lawyer Marieke is the point of contact for know-how and knowledge management. Marieke is responsible for internal and external newsletters and for the course program at our employment law and insurance law practice groups.

Besides her job at Kennedy Van der Laan, Marieke is a guest lecturer at VU University Amsterdam and an co-author of the Balanced Labour Market Act Handbook. She is regularly asked to respond to current events, such as the entitlement to wages during the Coronacrisis.