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

¹ Cit­izens of EU or EFTA mem­ber states shall be ad­mit­ted to the qual­i­fy­ing ex­am­in­a­tion if:

a.

they have suc­cess­fully com­pleted at least three years of stud­ies at a uni­versity and if ap­plic­able the re­quired pro­fes­sion­al train­ing in ad­di­tion to such stud­ies; and

b.

they hold a de­gree that en­titles them to prac­tise as a law­yer in an EU or EFTA mem­ber state.

² The law­yers must sit the qual­i­fy­ing ex­am­in­a­tion be­fore the law­yers’ ex­am­in­a­tion board of the can­ton on whose roll they wish to be entered.

³ The qual­i­fy­ing ex­am­in­a­tion shall cov­er the spe­cial­ist fields that are the sub­ject of the can­ton­al law­yers’ ex­am­in­a­tion and which dif­fer sub­stan­tially from those which have already been ex­amined in the course of their train­ing in their state of ori­gin. Its con­tent is also de­term­ined by the pro­fes­sion­al ex­per­i­ence of the law­yers con­cerned.

⁴ The qual­i­fy­ing ex­am­in­a­tion may be resat twice.