Emilie Van Rijckevorsel-Teeuwen

Emilie specialises in disciplinary and conduct law, professional liability and compliance. She represents lawyers, bankruptcy trustees, civil-law notaries and their insurers in disciplinary and civil proceedings. She regularly advises and represents civil-law notaries and lawyers from the Caribbean.

Emilie publishes articles and gives lectures on the duty of care and liability of lawyers and civil-law notaries. Together with Jonathan Soeharno and Jan Loorbach, she is the author of the book Integrity in the business legal profession, which was published at the end of 2022. She also holded a position on the editorial board of disciplinary law journal Tijdschrift Tuchtrecht.

Emilie was for years senior lecturer on professional attitude and professional ethics as part of the professional instruction provided by the Netherlands Bar and the Law Firm School. She also visits law firms and notarial firms to deliver practical training courses on AML/CTF legislation and conduct and disciplinary law.

Emilie was a member of the Amsterdam branch of the Board of Discipline (lid Raad van Discipline), the disciplinary board for the legal profession in the Netherlands. Since 2021, she has been a member of the board of the Amsterdam Bar Association and, since 2025, Emilie is dean (President) of the Amsterdam Bar Association.

As a registered member of the Dutch Federation of Mediators (MfN), she holded a seat on the board of the Platform Business Mediation.

Before forming Van Rijckevorsel Mencke with Jeroen, she held a position as counsel at Houthoff.

She is registered as a lawyer with the Netherlands Bar. In accordance with Article 35b(1) of the Legal Profession Regulations, the Netherlands Bar’s register of specialties lists the following as her specialty areas: disciplinary law, disciplinary law applicable to lawyers, and disciplinary law applicable to civil-law notaries.