Morgane Veenhuijzen

Morgane mainly deals with advising and litigation in the field of employment law and HRM.

Morgane Veenhuijzen was born in Utrecht in 1974. She spent her primary school years in Nigeria (West Africa) and in 1992 she obtained her Gymnasium diploma at the Gemeentelijk Gymnasium in Hilversum. She is therefore bilingual (English and Dutch).

She obtained her master's degree in Dutch law at the University of Utrecht in 1998. Due to her British background, she also obtained her UK Masters degree (LL.M) at the University of Edinburgh (U.K.) in 1999.

In 2000, she started as an attorney-at-law at the very traditional Hague law firm Maaldrink Vermeulen Grooss. Morgane worked there for about 6 years as an attorney-at-law before she came to support WiseMen's clients in employment as an independent attorney (Veenhuijzen Advocatuur).

From 1 January 2013, Morgane became officially part of the WiseMen team.

Apart from her work, she is a member of The Hague Association of Labour Law lawyers and she served as Vice-Chairman of the Dutch Young Bar Association for a year.

Morgane is also chairman of the Diemensie Foundation. A foundation that offers office space in a monumental building in The Hague. It's aim is to provide starting or reintegrating (female) entrepreneurs with office space for low rental prices.

Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister)

Morgane has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister):

• Labour Law
  • Collective dismissal
  • International labor law
  • Employee participation

Based on this registration, she is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.