{"id":1388,"date":"2020-09-14T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/samenwerking-met-allen-overy\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T23:07:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T21:07:11","slug":"cooperation-with-all-overy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/samenwerking-met-allen-overy\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration with Allen &amp; Overy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In early 2020, the Meldpunt Discriminatie Regio Amsterdam started a partnership with law firm Allen &amp; Overy in which attorneys from the Amsterdam office provide pro bono legal support for any litigation going to the Human Rights Council (CRM).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>For example, Allen &amp; Overy recently supported the Discrimination Hotline for a complaint about pregnancy discrimination. In addition, Allen &amp; Overy provides legal master classes to counselors at the Discrimination Hotline, focusing primarily on equal treatment law.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\"We are very pleased with this collaboration,\" said Vincent Verkoelen, acting director of the Hotline. \"Our service to citizens is free of charge and takes many forms. This support from Allen &amp; Overy to our clients increases the likelihood of a case at the CRM and lifts our offering to a higher level.\" It can also indirectly benefit the CRM through an improvement in case law. Tjarda van der Vijver, attorney at Allen &amp; Overy, on the initiative: \"Normally we work mainly for large corporations. It is wonderful to be able to make a difference for individuals through this collaboration and thus contribute to the fight against discrimination.\"<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>About Allen &amp; Overy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Allen &amp; Overy is an international law firm with more than 40 offices around the world. Allen &amp; Overy employs approximately 5,500 people, including 550 partners. The Amsterdam office is strongly rooted in the Dutch market with a history dating back to1854. It employs 185 lawyers, (junior) civil law notaries and tax advisers, including 33 partners. Clients include large and medium-sized, mostly listed companies, financial institutions and governments.<\/p>\n\n<p>The firm has specialists in the fields of corporate law, banking &amp; securities law, competition law, employment law, litigation, administrative law, tax law, real estate law and IP law, among others. The cooperation between specialists, local and international, makes Allen &amp; Overy Amsterdam a recognized market leader in the areas of transactions, financial markets, governance &amp; supervision and litigation.<br\/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Begin 2020 is het Meldpunt Discriminatie Regio Amsterdam een samenwerking gestart met advocatenkantoor Allen &amp; Overy waarbij advocaten van de Amsterdamse vestiging pro bono juridische ondersteuning bieden bij eventuele procesgangen naar het College voor de Rechten van de Mens (CRM).\u00a0 Zo heeft Allen &amp; Overy kort geleden het Meldpunt Discriminatie ondersteund voor een klacht over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nieuws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1389,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions\/1389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdra.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}