Jin Ho Verdonschot

Jin Ho Verdonschot

Senior Manager Online Legal Services at DAS Netherlands, NCTDR Fellow

The Netherlands

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Jin Ho has spent the past decade of his life on augmenting justice processes by use of technology. He was the founder of M-Haki (a mobile technology based access to justice platform in Kenya), founder of HiiL Rechtwijzer Technology (an ODR platform for divorce, and landlord tenant disputes that has served thousands of people in The Netherlands, England and British Columbia), and founder of the Justice Leadership Foundation (hosting a group Chief Justices, Ministers of Justice, Attorney Generals and other leadership profiles from across the globe to enhance innovation in Rule of Law and Access to Justice).

He currently leads the development and design of an online legal (ODR) platform for innovative, hybrid processes that facilitate and integrate legal information, diagnosis and triage, dialogue, mediation and litigation at DAS Legal Services. DAS is the largest legal services provider in The Netherlands. It makes justice accessible for citizens and organisations. Through a model of legal protection insurance combined with quality in-house legal services it does so sustainably. For over 50 years, DAS helps individuals, private companies and governments to resolve their legal problems, has about 2250 staff members in The Netherlands, among which are 600 legal specialists and 300 debt collection specialists.

Jin Ho holds an LLM and PhD in Law and has taught various LLM courses in Dispute System Design, ODR, Justice Innovation, Civil Procedure and Private Law.