Patricia Bringmann. Source: http://bringmannadvocaten.nl/
University of Amsterdam
Patricia Bringmann's documented life is centred in the Netherlands. Her education, bar admission and legal practice are all recorded in Amsterdam, the country's capital and largest city.
Her admission to practise is entered in the Dutch bar register under the Amsterdam court district, placing her within the legal profession of that city.
Her documented university education is at the University of Amsterdam, whose origins lie in the Athenaeum Illustre. Gerardus Vossius opened the Athenaeum on 8 January 1632 to educate the citizens of Amsterdam, and for more than two centuries it offered academic teaching in fields including mathematics, physics and astronomy.
The Athenaeum could not award degrees for much of its history. It was officially recognised for diplomas in 1815, and in 1877 the municipality of Amsterdam, under the Higher Education Act of 1876, raised it to university status with the right to confer doctorates.
The university has since become one of the largest institutions of higher education in the Netherlands, and its faculties include law.
Patricia Bringmann was sworn in as a lawyer on 3 April 1984 in the Amsterdam district. Dutch lawyers are admitted through a formal swearing-in and entered in the national bar register, which is where her Amsterdam admission is recorded.
Her professional affiliations include Dolk-Verburg-Diamand, a law firm at Cronenburg 75 in Amsterdam, where she served as a partner. A partnership in Dutch legal practice is an arrangement in which lawyers share ownership and management of the firm.
She also practises at Bringmann Advocaten B.V., a private limited company founded in June 2015 in Amsterdam. The bar register lists her there as a lawyer in personal injury law, and the firm's website describes her as having more than thirty years of experience in that field.
Patricia Bringmann is a member of the Vereniging van Letselschade Advocaten (LSA), the Dutch association for lawyers specializing in personal injury law. The association was founded on 7 June 1989 to promote expert legal practice in matters of personal injury and compensation for injury and death.
Membership requires lawyers to meet training and quality standards, including ongoing education, an annual quality review and audits conducted by independent third parties.
