Legal jobs in Bern

What you would do

• Develop road traffic rules and signage.
• Support cantons, municipalities, and other stakeholders on road traffic law issues.
• Participate in Federal Council and parliamentary affairs on road traffic.
• Represent ASTRA in expert committees and at specialist events.

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• Advise clients on tax matters.
• Handle tax and tax penalty proceedings.
• Process questions in direct and indirect taxation.
• Collaborate closely with the tax team.

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• Direct or participate in legislative projects, particularly in family allowance matters.
• Monitor the application of law by drafting appeals and preliminary opinions for the Federal Court.
• Handle parliamentary interventions and respond to questions from family allowance compensation funds.
• Develop directives for executive bodies.
• Represent the Sector in parliamentary debates and working groups within the Federal Administration.

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• Supporting public prosecutors in criminal proceedings, preparing legal documents, conducting investigations, and assisting with court proceedings.

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• Controlling information in the transparency register (sampling/risk analysis).
• Triage of results.
• Creating, adapting and deleting remarks.
• Participating in the implementation of control procedures (according to VwVG), including drafting procedural documents.
• Creating legal clarifications in simple cases with regard to control procedures.
• Creating criminal complaints.

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• Administrative support of the international patent, trademark, and design portfolio.
• Maintaining the IP database and electronic files.
• Processing incoming mail, recording and monitoring deadlines, and corresponding with internal contacts, external advisors, and IP offices in German and English.
• Preparing and electronically submitting protection applications and administratively supporting procedures from application to grant, registration, or extension.
• Coordinating and controlling annual, extension, and official fees via online services of national and international IP offices (IGE, EPA, WIPO).
• Conducting and evaluating trademark searches and availability checks and monitoring trademark publications.

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• Advise Suva employees and third parties on simple data protection and compliance queries (data transfer, access rights, privacy statements, conflicts of interest).
• Accompany projects on data protection and compliance issues and review contracts.
• Create specifications for data protection and compliance and working documents.
• Support the Data Protection Office in preparing compliance reports for management bodies.

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• Support and manage notary dossiers across all areas of the notary office, including direct contact with clients and authorities.
• Complete a practice-oriented training program preparing for the notary examination, from classical notarial tasks to participation in demanding nationwide projects.
• Collaborate with experienced employees and lawyers, and participate in internal training and university lectures.

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• Independently process legal cases of insured persons across all insured legal areas, especially labor law, criminal and traffic law, general contract law, sales and work contract law, and consumer credit and leasing law.
• Conduct negotiations with counterparties, authorities, insured persons, and lawyers.
• Advise insured persons by telephone and in person.
• Supervise and monitor mandates conducted by external lawyers within approved cost allowances.
• Perform insurance-related tasks such as checking insurance coverage and processing payments.

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• Manage notifications under the federal law on private security services provided abroad, including direct exchanges with companies and coordination with other federal services.
• Draft decisions and criminal complaints.
• Analyze activities of private security companies, particularly regarding notification obligations.
• Support legislative projects and monitor national and international developments in the private security sector.
• Participate in international and multilateral negotiations and represent Switzerland's positions.
• Conduct research and thematic analyses on companies, activities, and countries.

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• Conduct appeal proceedings in military insurance cases and develop legally sound decisions.
• Process predominantly French-speaking dossiers and draft correspondence and legal documents in French.
• Represent the military insurance company before cantonal insurance courts and the Federal Court.
• Analyze complex legal issues, provide sound legal advice, and develop practice-oriented solutions.
• Advise employees in ongoing cases and support them with legally demanding questions.

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• Process access requests under art. 25 LPD and art. 63 LRens.
• Execute appeal procedures before the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and the Federal Administrative Court.
• Plan and carry out audits of the SRC's information systems.
• Develop or update internal data processing directives (processing regulations, guides, processes).
• Lead data cleansing work.
• Advise and train SRC and cantonal executive authority personnel.

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• Drafting decisions and appeal decisions in German.
• Conducting appeal proceedings before the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Court.
• Carrying out comparative law investigations of foreign VAT regulations and clarifying non-tax legal issues (civil, criminal, procedural, and execution law).
• Responding to written requests from taxpayers and holding consultations with them and their representatives.
• Collaborating on internal working groups and projects.

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• Advise companies on M&A transactions, extensive restructurings, and due diligence examinations.
• Advise clients on legal questions and the impact of business initiatives.
• Moderate purchase and sale negotiations.
• Draft corporate purchase agreements.

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• Independently advance notarial dossiers (land registry, commercial register, inheritance matters).
• Handle correspondence and independently draft documents in German, English, and optionally French per instructions from notaries and lawyers.
• Process or monitor payment transactions with notaries.
• Draft, correct, and finalize lawyer correspondence and legal documents.
• Manage appointments for lawyers and notaries.
• Handle telephone contacts in the three languages and general office tasks.

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• Independently clarify legal issues, especially in foundation and tax law.
• Draft statutes and regulations and prepare contracts.
• Participate in the management of non-profit foundations, including full administration (organizing meetings, minutes, applications, drafting business reports).
• Communicate and coordinate with various stakeholders (beneficiaries, foundation supervision, tax administration, banks).

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• Legal advice and support for procurement projects under the Federal Act on Public Procurement (BöB) and related regulations in unemployment insurance and public employment services.
• Examination, drafting, and negotiation of contracts, especially in services and IT.
• Participation in IT projects of the performance area.
• Preparation of legal opinions, statements, and decision-making bases in procurement and contract law.
• Conducting discussions and negotiations with internal and external partners.

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• Verify requests for recognition of equivalency of foreign laboratory medicine training.
• Manage and process complex legislative projects across all sections of the Health Insurance Benefits division.
• Evaluate requests received by the division under the Transparency Law.
• Conduct administrative procedures and proceedings before administrative courts.
• Develop and implement legal bases for the division's sections.

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What you would do

• Handle access requests under Article 25 LPD and Article 63 LAIn.
• Execute appeal procedures before the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (IFPDT) and the Federal Administrative Court.
• Plan and execute inspections of information systems in the SIC.
• Develop or update internal directives for data processing (regulations, guidelines, processes).
• Direct data verification.
• Train and advise SIC employees and cantonal execution authorities.

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• Advise the IT organization on legal issues including IT procurement, digitalization, AI, cloud, software, data, and outsourcing.
• Negotiate, review, and shape contracts with technology providers, including framework agreements, SaaS, licenses, and development, maintenance, and operation agreements.
• Develop and implement contract templates, guidelines, processes, and assessments for new technologies, especially AI.
• Participate in risk assessments and governance processes to provide clear decision-making bases.
• Develop and deliver training so requirements are understood and applied in daily practice.

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