SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES - Association of Corporate Counsel

Dirk frequently lectures on various topics of international arbitration, both in the Netherlands and abroad.
He publishes on international arbitration and is, since a number of years, individually ranked in Legal 500 and
mentioned in Chambers' Client Report on International Arbitration.
Dirk Knottenbelt was educated in the Netherlands and Great Britain and is fluent in both Dutch and English.
Session 103: Managing global employment policies
Stephen J Hirschfeld
CEO, Employment Law Alliance; Partner, Curiale, Hirschfeld, Kraemer LLP
Stephen Hirschfeld is a partner with the law firm of Curiale Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP, in
San Francisco, California. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Employment Law
Alliance, the world's largest network of labor and employment lawyers. His practice
involves labor and employment law on behalf of management in both the private and
public sector.
Mr. Hirschfeld advises clients throughout the country on day-to-day legal issues affecting the workplace. He
takes a proactive approach when advising clients, emphasizing creative solutions to employee relations
problems. He frequently represents employers in federal and state courts and before administrative
agencies on a variety of litigation matters involving the employer-employee relationship.
Mr. Hirschfeld has over 30 years of experience handling wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment
and trade secrets litigation, employment law counseling, collective bargaining, labor arbitrations and union
organizing. He has conducted and overseen hundreds of investigations involving employee misconduct and
has tried to verdict over 100 cases before juries, courts, arbitrators, administrative law judges and
government agencies with a 'win rate' of nearly 90 percent. He has significant cross-border expertise
working closely with European, Latin American and Asian-based companies with operations in the US as well
as US companies with operations abroad.
Aedzer Oreel
Counsel - Labor & Employment (EAI), LyondellBasell Industries
Aedzer Oreel is Labor and Employment Counsel (EAI) for LyondellBasell, the world’s thirdlargest
independent chemical company. LyondellBasell has annual revenues of
approximately $41 billion (2010) and employs more than 14,000 employees worldwide.
The major administrative offices of the company are located in Houston and Rotterdam.
Aedzer is in charge of handling general labor and employment issues including
restructurings, (pan-European) consultation issues and implementation of global policies. Before joining
LyondellBasell in June 2011, Aedzer worked for 8 years as an employment attorney for Baker&McKenzie and
Van Doorne, both in Amsterdam.
Hillary Weingast
Vice President, Legal, Symantec Corporation
Hillary Weingast is Vice President, Legal, for Symantec Corporation, a global leader in
providing security, storage and systems management solutions. Hillary leads an
organization that is responsible for global employment law, ethics and compliance, global
privacy and Corporate Responsibility. Hillary’s group leads a comprehensive compliance
and ethics program that enables Symantec’s business success while promoting ethical
conduct, and a commitment to compliance with both legal requirements and Symantec’s
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