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expat-services.ch lists 4 hand-checked English-speaking lawyers and notaries in Lausanne: Aedilex Lausanne (Alliance de Notaires), Legalia Avocats, Leximmo Avocat·e·s and PBM Avocats.
Besides English, they also work in French, German, Albanian and Chinese. Every profile shows the services, languages and contact details, checked by hand before going live. See also Tax advisors in Lausanne.
4 providers
Notary office in Lausanne within the Aedilex notarial alliance. Real estate deeds including LFAIE matters; notary Sarah Keiser-Wüger lists French, German and English. English version of the site.
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Is this your business?Lausanne law firm for private clients covering family, employment, tenancy, inheritance, property and condominium matters, among other areas.
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Is this your business?Lausanne law firm specialising in real estate and construction law. Practice list includes Lex Koller advice for foreign non-residents, real estate sales, notarial law and lease law. English site.
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Is this your business?Law firm in Lausanne and Geneva for individuals and businesses: divorce and family, employment, lease and real estate, traffic and debt collection. Lawyers speak six languages.
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Is this your business?Local facts
A Vaud notary is the State's public officer for authentic deeds, works on his or her own responsibility under the cantonal department and needs a licence from the Council of State. The licence follows a two-and-a-half-year traineeship and an examination before a commission chaired by a cantonal judge, and each notary pays the State CHF 5,000 a year for the monopoly (Canton of Vaud, checked ). Since a 2023 revision, the ceiling for the notary's liability insurance is CHF 5 million (Canton of Vaud, checked ).
The notary's fee is a public-law charge set by a Council of State tariff that cannot be changed by agreement, and people without sufficient means can be exempted. The parties answer jointly for it, and unless agreed otherwise the buyer bears the costs of a transfer deed (Canton of Vaud, checked ).
Lawyers appear in a cantonal register kept by the Chamber of Lawyers, searchable by name, place or category and including EU/EFTA lawyers, trainees and counsel (Canton of Vaud, checked ). The Vaud judiciary gives no legal advice itself and points to the legal desks of the Ordre des avocats vaudois and of the notaries' association (Canton of Vaud, checked ). Legal aid in civil and administrative cases pays a lawyer CHF 180 an hour and a trainee CHF 110, is repaid in monthly instalments in principle, and a refusal can be appealed within ten days (Canton of Vaud, checked ).
Newcomers register with the Service du contrôle des habitants at Rue du Port-Franc 18. The registration deadline is 14 days (2026) (lausanne.ch, checked ). Arrivals from abroad or from another canton book a counter appointment and attend in person with a complete file (lausanne.ch, checked ), and the city's fee schedule sets CHF 30 for registering an arrival (lausanne.ch, checked ). For the national rules, see registering at your commune.
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