Federal Act
on the Free Movement of Lawyers
(Lawyers Act, FMLA)

¹ Cit­izens of EU or EFTA mem­ber states may be entered on a can­ton­al law­yers’ roll without sat­is­fy­ing the re­quire­ments un­der Art­icle 7 let­ter b provided they:

a.

have passed a qual­i­fy­ing ex­am­in­a­tion (Art. 31); or

b.

have been entered for at least three years on the list of law­yers prac­tising un­der their ori­gin­al pro­fes­sion­al title and prove that they:

1.

have prac­tised dur­ing this peri­od ef­fect­ively and reg­u­larly in the field of Swiss law, or

2.

have prac­tised in the field of Swiss law for a short­er peri­od and have proven their pro­fes­sion­al skills in an in­ter­view (Art. 32).

² They shall thereby have the same rights and ob­lig­a­tions as law­yers who hold a can­ton­al law­yer’s prac­tising cer­ti­fic­ate and are entered on a can­ton­al law­yers’ roll.