East Servatius

Background

East Servatius's documented life is connected with Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The city was the setting for both university study and the legal practice that forms the central thread of the career documented for Servatius.

Education

East Servatius studied at the University of Amsterdam. Founded in 1632 as the Athenaeum Illustre by the city's municipal authorities, the institution was elevated to university status in 1877 and was known as the Municipal University of Amsterdam until 1961.

The university's Faculty of Law, housed in the Oudemanhuispoort buildings, is today one of the largest law faculties in the Netherlands and focuses particularly on European and global law.

Career

Servatius practiced law in the Netherlands and was admitted to the Dutch bar in 1971. Admission to the bar placed Servatius within the regulated structure of the Dutch legal profession, in which a practicing advocate must hold a law degree and be admitted to the national bar association.

Servatius later worked as a partner at Dolkverb Urg-Diamand, a firm based at Cronenburg 75 in Amsterdam. Amsterdam's legal sector ranges from large international practices, such as the Benelux firm Stibbe, which was founded in Amsterdam in 1911, to smaller local practices.

Membership

The Nederlandse orde van advocaten is the public-law professional body for the Dutch legal profession, established by the Advocatenwet with effect from 1 October 1952. It promotes proper professional practice, sets rules of conduct, organizes professional training, and is financed by its members rather than by the government.

Servatius's admission to the Dutch bar in 1971 connected him with this body, which every lawyer practicing in the Netherlands joins as a member.

• Nederlandse orde van advocaten , Netherlands

  1971

References

• Lawyers.com Online directory page associating East Servatius with the Amsterdam firm Dolk-Verburg-Diamand at Cronenburg 75.