Attorney-at-Law and Notary public, born 1951
registered in the official register of lawyers and register of notaries public
Languages: German, English, French
Education
- Graduate and doctor from the University of Zurich (1976/1982)
- Special examining magistrate
- Auditor at the District Court of Rorschach
- Collaborative Lawyer clp Schweiz
Professional Experience
- Self-employed lawyer and notary public, advice and litigation (since 1979)
- Substitute member of the Bar Association of the Canton of St. Gallen (since 1992)
- President of the St. Gallen Bar Association (1995–1999)
- President of the disciplinary recourse commission of the St. Gallen Bar Association
- President of Collaborative Law & Practice Switzerland (until 2020)
- Former director of the expert group for liability law within the St. Gallen Bar Association
- Lectures on criminal defence at the Executive School of Management and Law at the University of St. Gallen
Practice areas
- Contract law
- Liability and insurance law, in particular professional and medicinal liability law
- Matrimonial law and inheritance law, in particular divorce law and collaborative law
- Criminal law, in particular commercial criminal law
Memberships
- Swiss and St. Gallen Bar Association
- Swiss Association for Collaborative Law clp-Schweiz (www.clp.ch)
- Expert group for liability law, family law and criminal law of the St. Gallen Bar Association
- Member of the board of the Lawyers’ Association of St. Gallen