In addition to the specific job openings listed on this site, we are constantly seeking highly talented and motivated lawyers and tax experts with an excellent academic background and strong personal skills to continuously expand our practice teams in our offices in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne.
Challenging work and specialization
Our associates have the opportunity to work on interesting and challenging assignments for our domestic and foreign clients and advise on a broad range of business law matters, typically involving cross-border considerations. For administrative purposes, our associates form part of a smaller team of attorneys and trainees headed by one of our partners. During their assignments, they work with a range of attorneys and partners of our firm with a clear focus on the practice areas in which they will specialize over time.
The fields of expertise of our associates evolve naturally. Although we encourage and promote specialization with increasing experience, we feel that it is important for our young associates to have a comparatively broad exposure to different practice areas in the early stages of their career, which allows them to grow naturally into their preferred fields of specialization. This approach ensures that our associates become specialists without losing the benefits of a generalist’s view, namely the ability to provide solid and pragmatic advice and identify potential issues beyond the scope of their core specialization. Our associates are typically members of two to three practice groups.
Training and education
We offer our associates ongoing education both on the job and through regular, thorough and systematic internal training (regular lunch meetings are hosted by our practice groups), plus access to external seminars and conferences. Members of our firm frequently contribute to academic and research publications and act as speakers at expert conferences in which Lenz & Staehelin is asked to participate.
Experience abroad and exchange between Geneva and Zurich
We encourage our associates to gain expertise abroad after they have taken their bar exam (through postgraduate programs or foreign associate positions at leading international law firms abroad). We promote the exchange of associates between our Geneva and Zurich offices, and encourage our associates to spend at least six months in the other office.
Career planning
Lenz & Staehelin is an integrated partnership that has grown in a constant and controlled manner on both partner and associate level since its origins. We realize the importance of long-term career perspectives for our associates, and place great emphasis on a detailed, thorough and transparent annual performance review for our associates. We assist our more senior associates in assessing and pursuing their personal career opportunities, and offer our most talented associates the opportunity to become partners, typically after their sixth to eighth year as an associate.
Applications
We look forward to receiving applications from candidates who are attracted by a modern, team-oriented and challenging work environment. We expect excellent academic credentials, admission to the bar, excellent language skills (French or German, plus English), strong personal skills, and broad extracurricular interests. Although we welcome additional academic qualifications (such as a doctorate, postgraduate studies, specialist degrees, tax expert diplomas, etc.) and practical work experience, this is not a requirement for your application for an associate position.
Please send your application together with your photo, curriculum vitae, diplomas and references to:
Geneva and Lausanne offices:
Private and Confidential
LENZ & STAEHELIN
Andreas Rötheli
Route de Chêne 30
CH-1211 Geneva 17
Zurich office:
Private and Confidential
LENZ & STAEHELIN
Alex Wittmann
Bleicherweg 58
CH-8027 Zurich