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expat-services.ch lists 4 hand-checked English-speaking lawyers and notaries in Basel: Advokatur & Mediation Pfander, Alder, Lehmann, Schneider, FROMER Advokatur und Notariat, Kellerhals Carrard (Bern and Basel notaries) and Nigon Partner AG.
Besides English, they also work in French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Tax advisors in Basel.
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Basel law and mediation office for private clients covering family, employment and tenancy law, inheritance and contracts, with notarial deeds in Basel-City and Basel-Country.
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Is this your business?Basel law and private notary office: property purchases, mortgages, wills, marriage and inheritance contracts, company deeds and authentications, plus family and employment advice.
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Is this your business?Law firm with notaries in Bern and Basel. Notarial services cover property sale, purchase, gift and exchange; the real estate team lists property acquisition by foreign nationals. English site.
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Is this your business?Basel law firm and notary's office. Notarial deeds for real estate, corporate and marriage and inheritance law, issued in English, German, French or Spanish; tenancy law also listed.
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Is this your business?Local facts
Lawyers who appear before the Basel-Stadt courts are entered in the cantonal register kept by the supervisory commission for lawyers, made up equally of court representatives and members of the Advokatenkammer Basel, with its secretariat at the Appellationsgericht, Bäumleingasse 1. Anyone may ask whether a lawyer is registered. Registration requires liability insurance of at least CHF 1 million per claim, and paid representation in court is reserved for registered lawyers, although no lawyer is compulsory (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ).
The courts' fee regulation for professional representation sets base fees by amount in dispute, for example CHF 4,500 to 10,000 for claims between CHF 30,000 and 100,000, and caps the fee for a conciliation procedure that ends without a lawsuit in money disputes at one third of the full-case fee (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ). State-paid representation is remunerated at CHF 200 an hour (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ).
Residents of Basel, Riehen and Bettingen can get legal information from a clerk of the Zivilgericht on Tuesday afternoons for family law and Thursday afternoons for general civil law, by phone on +41 61 267 40 11 in odd-numbered weeks or in person at Bäumleingasse 5 in even-numbered weeks, but not on pending cases (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ). A joint desk of lawyers' associations meets on Thursdays from 18:00 to 19:00 at Eulerstrasse 26 for CHF 10, without an appointment (Kanton Basel-Stadt, checked ). Notaries have their own page.
Newcomers register with the Einwohneramt of Bevölkerungsdienste und Migration at Spiegelgasse 6; from 2 November 2026 its counters work from a temporary building on Schwarzwaldallee, opposite Badischer Bahnhof. The deadline is 14 days (2026) (Einwohneramt BS, checked ): the date of the online booking counts, not the date of the appointment. Registration costs CHF 25 per person (Einwohneramt BS, checked ). The general steps are in registering at your commune.
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