Often, those seek­ing legal advice are already well helped by a  pro­found one-time con­sul­ta­tion. Togeth­er with you, Dr. Heller cre­ates a «big pic­ture» of the giv­en ini­tial sit­u­a­tion. Togeth­er we con­sid­er legal options and think about max­i­mum, but above all opti­mal solu­tions. In cas­es regard­ing claims, ini­tial non-bind­ing cal­cu­la­tion sketch­es are also possible.

One-time con­sul­ta­tions cost CHF 500.00 in cash against receipt, regard­less of the time involved. They are car­ried out with­out pre­lim­i­nary con­sul­ta­tion or fol­low-up. In view of a pos­si­ble longer coop­er­a­tion, one-time con­sul­ta­tions give you a good oppor­tu­ni­ty to test the «chem­istry» between you and Dr. Heller as well as his skills.

As a Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA Employ­ment Law and based on rich expe­ri­ence as well I am best-versed in both pri­vate and pub­lic employ­ment law.

In mat­ters of pub­lic employ­ment law quite often already the des­ig­na­tion of the applic­a­ble law proves to be chal­leng­ing. Did the munic­i­pal­i­ty, the city, the can­ton or the Swiss Con­fed­er­a­tion enact spe­cif­ic pub­lic employ­ment reg­u­la­tions? Or does the munic­i­pal­i­ty refer to the can­ton­al or the fed­er­al law, or even to the Swiss Code of Obligations?

As a Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA Employ­ment Law I pay atten­tion to ide­o­log­i­cal inde­pen­dence. There­fore, I con­scious­ly advise and rep­re­sent both employ­ers and employ­ees. Ulti­mate­ly, all clients ben­e­fit equal­ly if the spe­cial­ist attor­ney for employ­ment law can cor­rect­ly assess the inter­ests of both sides. Latent con­flicts of inter­est are care­ful­ly clar­i­fied and avoided.

Employ­ers can rely on quick and reli­able ini­tial assess­ments of inquiries. For updates of employ­ment con­tracts and reg­u­la­tions, fore­see­able prob­lems are care­ful­ly weighed up. This does not solve prob­lems; rather, it is intend­ed to pre­vent prob­lems from aris­ing in the first place. 

With regard to employ­ee con­cerns, I have utter­ly pro­duc­tive and well-found­ed expe­ri­ence with over­time claims as well as in advis­ing and rep­re­sent­ing high man­agers with vari­able salary com­po­nents (bonus­es; employ­ee share schemes).

For all those who google «best lawyer» or «top lawyer employ­ment law»: The title «Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA» is a lawyer rank­ing you can rely on. This is because the title guar­an­tees ver­i­fi­able spe­cial­iza­tion with a bind­ing duty of con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion. The Swiss Bar Asso­ci­a­tion SBA empha­sizes on its web­site sav-fsa.ch that the title «Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA» is «a seal of qual­i­ty for spe­cif­ic legal advice — com­pa­ra­ble, for exam­ple, to the ‘Spe­cial­ist FMH’ in medicine.»

Prospec­tive Spe­cial­ist Lawyers SBA pass a rig­or­ous selec­tion pro­ce­dure (proof of expe­ri­ence). This is fol­lowed by a uni­ver­si­ty course includ­ing a final exam­i­na­tion. Only after a fur­ther admis­sion exam­i­na­tion by the Swiss Bar Asso­ci­a­tion SBA, the cer­ti­fied title is award­ed. For every 13,000 lawyers prac­tic­ing in Switzer­land, only about one in a hun­dred qual­i­fies as an Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA Employ­ment Law. Don’t set­tle for any­thing less.

No ques­tion, the Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA charges his price. Nev­er­the­less, in ret­ro­spec­tive, he is often «cheap­er» on bal­ance than, for exam­ple, a gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er. In effect, the num­ber of hours charged is more impor­tant than the hourly rate:

Few­er attor­ney hours x high­er hourly rate is more cost effec­tive than many attor­ney hours x low­er hourly rate.

Time-con­sum­ing legal research or tak­ing the argu­men­ta­tive­ly obvi­ous­ly wrong direc­tion can make a man­date mas­sive­ly more expen­sive. This dan­ger is sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced with Spe­cial­ist Lawyers SBA, thanks to their pro­found spe­cial­ist knowl­edge and trained eye for the essen­tials. The Swiss Bar Asso­ci­a­tion SAV informs on sav-fsa.ch, lawyers with a title «Spe­cial­ist Lawyer SBA» often­times could address the clients con­cerns «more quick­ly and effec­tive­ly.»

On the oth­er hand, not every legal prob­lem needs a lawyer who is among the top in the rel­e­vant field of law. Even young and less expe­ri­enced lawyers can make up for a lack of expe­ri­ence with a high lev­el of com­mit­ment, at least in the area of legal the­o­ry. So think care­ful­ly about which lawyer is best for you.

Heller Attorney’s Ltd is encor­po­rat­ed as Lim­it­ed com­pa­ny because in ear­li­er years it staffed sev­er­al lawyers – and because this remains an option for the future. Fur­ther­more, Heller Attorney’s Ltd runs two offices (city of Zurich and Wän­gi TG, a vil­lage close to Win­terthur). Man­dates are to be entered with Heller Attorney’s Ltd, and are exe­cut­ed by Dr. Heller personally.