Background
Marie-Elise Domburg was born in 1963. Her documented education took place in the Netherlands, where she studied at Leyden University and later trained as a candidate civil-law notary.
Leiden University. Photo: Rudolphous, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leiden_-_Rapenburg_73.jpg)
Marie-Elise Domburg was born in 1963. Her documented education took place in the Netherlands, where she studied at Leyden University and later trained as a candidate civil-law notary.
Marie-Elise Domburg's documented education includes study at Leyden University, with the record dating her studies to 1987. Leyden is the historical form of Leiden, the Dutch city where the university was founded in 1575 and where it remains one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands.
Her record also identifies her as a candidate civil-law notary. In the Netherlands, civil-law notaries prepare the notarial deeds required for transactions such as the transfer of real estate, company formation, wills, and nuptial agreements. Leiden's notarial law programme focuses on family law, corporate law, and real estate law, subjects connected with the notarial profession.
Domburg is a lawyer who works as a partner at Resident Associates. In a law firm, a partner is an attorney with partial ownership of the firm, while associates are generally salaried employees who do not hold an ownership interest.
Her documented role at Resident Associates is that of partner, which reflects a senior position within the firm.