Attorney, lic. iur.
I support you preferably in all questions of social security law as well as general insurance law. In addition, I work on all issues relating to tenancy and labour law, divorce and family law, as well as inheritance law and contraventions.
Services
Portrait
Publications
Services
Social insurance law
- General advice and assessment of IV cases
- Advice and representation in disputes concerning disability insurance (IV) and contestation of the corresponding preliminary decisions and rulings up to the Federal Supreme Court
- Advice and representation in all matters relating to occupational benefits, old-age pensions, supplementary and/or additional benefits, as well as enforcement of the relevant decisions
- Advice and representation in disputes arising in connection to the casualty insurance, health insurance or general insurance as well as enforcement of the corresponding decisions
Contraventions
- Assessment and appeal of fines imposed by municipal magistrates or governor’s offices
Employment law
- Drafting and concluding employment contracts
- Terminations, warnings and declarations of exemption
- Employment references and their adjustments
- Wage claims, gratuities and bonuses
- Short-time work compensation
- Obtaining work permits
Divorce and separation
- Marriage protection (“Eheschutz”)
- Divorce / Separation
- Dissolution of registered partnership
- Drafting separation and divorce agreements
- Amendment of judgments on divorce
Tenancy law
- Questions in connection with the conclusion and termination of contracts
- Rent adjustments, increases and decreases
- Extension of tenancies
- Heating and ancillary cost settlements
- Claims for damages on moving out
Inheritance law
- Power of attorney, living wills
- Distribution of estate, preparation of contracts of inheritance, administration of estates
- Execution of wills
- Sale of real estate
Portrait
Languages
- German, English, French
Education
- 2001
- Admitted to the bar in Zurich
- 1997
- Licenciate
Further training
- 2019
- Seminar on the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA)
- 2019
- Labour law: Avoiding legal pitfalls at work
- 2019
- International contract drafting for professionals
- 2019
- Basic training on the Money Laundering Act
- 2019
- St. Gallen Labour Law Conference 2019, Grand Casino Lucerne Conference
- 2017
- Revision of the Law on Pension Equalisation in the Event of Divorce, Zurich Conference
- 2013
- St. Gallen Inheritance Law Day, Zurich Conference
- 2011
- ZPR, New Civil Procedure, Zurich Conferen
- 2011
- Conference on the Swiss Code of Civil Procedure – Family Law Proceedings, Zurich Conference
- 2010
- New Civil Procedure, Zurich Conference
- 2010
- New Criminal Procedure, Zurich Conference
- 2003
- Net/gross return, local and neighbourhood customary”, seminar mietrechtspraxis
Professional activities
- since 2023
- Partner at Schaub Hochl Rechtsanwälte AG
- 2021 – 2023
- Independent lawyer at Schaub Hochl Rechtsanwälte AG
- 2018 – 2020
- Lawyer at OBT AG
- 2005 – 2019
- Partner at Obergass Rechtsanwälte
- 2004 – 2007
- Police judge of the city of Winterthur
- 2000 – 2003
- Lawyer at Axa ARAG Rechtschutzversicherung
Memberships
- Zurich Bar Association, Swiss Bar Association
Publications