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We are delighted to welcome Chelsea Rolle to the firm as a trainee lawyer. Prior to joining the firm, Chelsea worked as a trainee clerk at the Fribourg Compulsory Measures Court.

We are proud of our associate Aline Nelis, who has just successfully completed a peace-building mission in Kosovo with the 48th SWISSCOY contingent. After several months' preparation for military service, Aline Nelis was deployed for half a year to Kosovo, where she served as an observer in a KFOR Liaison and Monitoring Team. We look forward to welcoming Aline Nelis back to our Firm as of 1 November 2023.

We are delighted to welcome Raphaël Faure to our firm as an associate. Raphaël Faure recently obtained his bar exam Summa cum laude.

Congratulations to Nathalie Subilia for her appointement as the representative of the International Association of Lawyers’ before the International Labour Organisation.

Our partner, Nathalie Subilia, spoke at the Geneva Bar Association’s yearly Law Marathon on recent development in Labour Law.

Nathalie Subilia hosted the First Tuesday conference organised by the Geneva Bar Association on case law in employment law.

Sonja Maeder Morvant, partner, has been recognised again  by Chambers Europe 2023 amongst the best lawyers in the field of White Collar Crime.

We are pleased and proud to announce that our trainee, Aline Nelis, has passed her bar exam with flying colours. We are already looking forward to welcoming her again in a few months.

We are pleased to announce the publication by Helbing & Liechtenhahn of a reference book on the practice of the Bar, namely the Commentary of the Lawyers' Act (LLCA), to which our partner, Christian Reiser, contributed as scientific editor alongside Me Michel Valticos and Professors Benoît Chappuis and François Bohnet, as well as author or co-author of the analysis of several provisions.

Sonja Maeder Morvant spoke on the legal issues of cryptocurrencies at a conference organised by the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers in London.

Sonja Maeder Morvant spoke on Swiss sanctions in the framework of a conference organised in Frankfurt by the American Bar Association and the German association of lawyers in white collar defence (Wistev), on sanctions imposed on Russia.

Our partner, Sonja Maeder Morvant, chaired a panel at the IBA Annual Transnational Crime Conference in London on cyber attacks and ransomware.

Guillaume Etier gave a course on civil liability in the medical field, organised by the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and given to Master students.

Nathalie Subilia and Federica Panetti examine the consequences of Covid-19 in labour law in the Revue de l'Avocat.  

Interview with Nathalie Subilia, Partner, in Bilan magazine on the issue of the rights and duties of employers and employees in the context of Covid-19 vaccination "L'employeur ne peut pas obliger ses employés à être vaccinés".

We are pleased to welcome Aline Nelis to our firm as a trainee lawyer. Prior to joining us, Aline Nelis completed a 6-month internship at the International Criminal Court.

Alexandre de Senarclens published with Lisa Harrison an article in the legal review La Semaine Judiciaire (SJ 2021 II 47) on the Lombard Credit and the Leverage Effect.

Congratulations to our partner Sonja Maeder Morvant who has been appointed co-chair of the International Bar Association's Business crime committee.

Flavien Valloggia authored an article for the magazine Immobilier.ch of November 2020 on the end of freezing decision of the densification of the villas zone in Geneva and the modification of the Law on constructions and installations.

Sonja Maeder Morvant is once again recognised as a “Thought leader” in business crime and investigations by Who’s Who Legal, a publication identifying leading practitioners in the field.

Nathalie Subilia and Lisa Harrison publish an article in the newspaper Le Temps titled “Quarantine on return from holidays, which responsibility for the employee? ”, section Opinion. https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/mise-quarantaine-retour-vacances-une-responsabilite-lemploye?utm_source=mail&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=article

We are proud of our partner Flavien Valloggia, who, in the context of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, has been mobilized since 19 March 2020 as part of his military duties for the army's support to civil authorities. Colonel Valloggia, chief of staff for personnel of Territorial Division 1, is part of the staff which, under the leadership of the Joint Operations Command, coordinates and supervises military operations and missions in the French-speaking cantons as well as in the canton of Bern.

We are very pleased that Sonja Maeder Morvant, partner, has received the Investigation Client Choice Award 2020 for Switzerland by Lexology. This award recognises lawyers who stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service. Nomination is exclusively by corporate counsel.

Alexandre de Senarclens and Charlotte Séchaud published in the legal review Expert Focus an article on the duty to provide information from the financial service provider to its client according to the new Federal Act on Financial Services (FinSA)

Reiser Avocats has been launched! A fresh start for the benefit of our clients

Sonja Maeder Morvant is recognised as a “Thought leader” in investigations by Who’s Who Legal, a publication identifying leading practitioners in the field.

Me Guillaume Etier lectures on civil liability at the  ‘Marathon du droit’ of the Ordre des avocats de Genève.